5/25-27/04 I went up to the property for 3 days: Tuesday through Thursday.

I arrived at 1:20 and found a bigger frog in the gate lock can. This one was about an inch and a quarter long. I don't know if the other frog grew that much or if this is a different frog.

The flap was down on the rodent valve but the peanut was still in the pipe. I took that to mean that someone tried to get in from the outside but failed. The peanuts were still on the floor, so PR had evidently not found another way in. PR had cleaned out the leaves and styrofoam bits from the cavity and he was not in it. He had urinated in it though and it had run down the log. I guess that was a message to me that he was pissed off.

The wind had blown the tarp loose from the wood pile and when I went to fix it, I saw two lizards locked in a loving embrace. I fixed the tarp and let them be.

I went to work and sanded the logs that were due for another coat of varnish. Then I set up a two tier scaffold under the Grid D purlin. I also set up the first tier of a tower under the ridgepole.

On Wednesday I de-winterized the trailer. I think this is the latest I have ever done that. I realized that I had forgotten to set the trap the night before, but the peanuts were still on the floor so PR hadn't gotten back in anyway.

I dismantled the scaffold under the Grid B purlin since I was done varnishing it, and used the frames to complete the three-tier tower under the ridgepole. I braced the tower so it didn't sway so much when I walked on it or worked on it. Then I planed, scraped, gouged, and sanded the ridgepole all the way to the Grid C2 RPSL. I also planed and scraped half of the C2 RPSL from the ridgepole to the second tier level. The RPSL was easy but the ridgepole was hard. It is fairly lumpy and working with my arms overhead is very tiring. I was hoping to finish the Grid D purlin too, but I was too tired and didn't get to it at all. I went in for the night forgetting to set the trap again.

On Thursday morning, the peanuts were still on the floor so it didn't matter that I had forgotten the trap. I varnished the prepared logs and then took a 60-foot coil of 1-inch copper pipe up to the spring. I sweated it on to the stub sticking out from under the tree in the creek bed. There is an old log across the stream just below the pipe so I will have to cut through or remove that in order to roll the pipe out. I just left the coil there and I will unroll it later.

I checked the overflow pipe at the spring and there were none of those little larvae in it. I also checked the little tree and it is growing nicely. I left for home at 1:35. There were no frogs in the can.