June 11th to 13th - 100 Mile

June 11th – Sat
We were back to falling trees and cleaning up. Terry got a good workout cutting stumps down to ground level. In the past, too many stumps have been left and make it tough to get the tractor through some areas. Rain threatened so we stopped early for lunch. Dad had the great idea to repaint the gates at the entrance to the farm so we brought them into the carport for him to scrape and paint. He finished putting hanging brackets on the 2 feeders that he built, got in more wood and worked on the gates.
After lunch, we continued with the trees and cleanup. Ron & Steve from down the road came to pick up Steve’s boat which was stored in Marg’s barn so we visited with them for a bit. We got our daily rain about 7. At least I don’t have to spend time watering the garden.

June 12th – Sun
We had to put the fence post pounder on the tractor this morning and had a couple of problems. Marg didn’t tell us where to find the sleeves for the drawbar so Terry decided to put the new drawbar on the post pounder which is a very heavy, unwieldy piece of equipment. We managed the job with a large jack and the courage of the ignorant. Then we had to jack it up even more to hook it to the tractor. It turned out that Marg had put a retaining pin in the wrong position and the pounder settled during the winter which made it too low.
The posts actually went in quite well thanks to all the rain softening the ground. But it was a challenge for Terry to maneuver the tractor around all the stumps, trees and uneven ground to back up to the correct position for each post. In a couple of cases he had to move to the opposite side of the fence as the front wheels were in a hole and we couldn’t get the post in far enough. We can’t have things too easy!
Dad was busy too. He continued painting the gates and brought in more wood.
We got a phone call from Marg. She & Pat are in Golden and had rented bicycles for the day so they are having a good time.

June 13th – Mon
The overcast sky this morning prompted us to go to town for several errands – bird seed, liquor, groceries, metal gate and paint. By the time we got back it was too late to work on the fence before lunch so we just puttered around doing small things. Then it was back to the fencing project where we put up three braces, cleaned up more debris from the old snake fence and rolled out the wire. Rain threatened so we quit the fence and I touched up some paint on the gates that Dad was working on and put the second coat on one side of the second gate. The paint dries very quickly so we were able to hang the gate and admire another job well done.
We watched the Canucks lose again to Boston and then watched rain pour down.