12/10-12/02 I went up to the property for 3 days: Tuesday through Thursday.

On the way up, I was delayed about an hour because I had to detour around a fatal accident just outside of Monroe. Before I got to the property, I stopped and delivered jam to Dickinsons, Earl and Dana, Copenhavers, and Tutinos. I learned that Shirley had broken her ankle a week before Thanksgiving and was hobbling around with plates and screws holding her ankle together.

I finally arrived at the property at 1:50. It was snowing lightly. After moving in, I rigged up to scribe the log, scribed it, and ripped about 2/3 of the slab before it got too dark to see. By then it had snowed about 3 inches.

In the middle of the night I was awakened by water dripping off the snowshed and hitting a beer can which was directly in the drip line and directly below my window. It was so loud that I got dressed and went out to move it. The beer can was left by vandals and I am keeping it for "evidence". I was now beginning to wonder why I was saving them.

On Wednesday morning it was mixed rain and snow. I finished ripping the slab and skidded it down to the gwiz station. I didn't want to work in the rain and snow so I gwizzed two slabs. Then, since the snow was supposed to continue all day, I moved the pickup down to the road so I wouldn't get snowed in. After lunch I gwizzed three more planks and scribed one line on the log before it got dark. By nightfall, the snow was about 9 inches deep.

On Thursday morning, it had stopped snowing. I finished scribing the other side of the log and ripped one plank. I didn't see any jays at all this week. I left for home at 1:15.