Some Saw Logs

Tajenay and I went to the timber to find morels. We found lots of garlic mustard and two piles of saw logs. Steve has definitely been busy. We counted 21 logs in one pile near the stream and 11 more in the pile closest to the tractor. Mostly White Oak with several 16 ft logs and as many 8, 10, or 12 ft logs. The diameters ranged from 10 inches to almost 20 inches inside bark.

But, we found no mushrooms... well, one mushroom, but it was not a morel and we just took a photo home, not the mushroom. I pulled a lot of garlic mustard, but it's already gone to seed so I think it's too late to try garlic mustard pesto.

Tajenay loves playing in the water and we stayed until 5:30pm when the mosquitoes started to bite. A wood duck landed right near the crossing, then saw us and took flight downstream. Tajenay saw hand prints made by little moo cows (a.k.a. "she saw deer tracks").

It was another great day in the timber with no real timber work getting done. Our to do list: cut and treat the wahoo (burning bush) by the stream, transplant the black walnut trees (that are growing in our yard) to the timber, cut maple and basswood trees that have started to win the understory, cut back buck thorn and raspberries bushes to make easier travel, create some walking trails, and hire an army to pull garlic mustard.