3/10-12/09 I went up to the property for 3 days: Tuesday through Thursday.

There was snow on the road going over the pass and there was about 4 inches of new snow on the ground when I arrived at the property at 12:30. It was nice and sunny but the temperature was just below freezing. The new snow was light and dry. Bert and Ernie met me before I could get my boots on.

After moving in, I shoveled the snow off the concrete stairs and spent the rest of the day cutting firewood for the scouts. I bucked up 6 or 8 feet of the big ponderosa log in the drainfield and then split that into a pile of firewood. The log is about 24 inches in diameter. The only really sound wood in it is about 8 inches in the very center. The rest of it will make pretty good firewood too, but it is pretty wet. At least it will be useful once they get their fire going.

On Wednesday I swept off the front porch. Then I cut steps in the ice and snow going down into the trailer and also above and below the concrete staircase. I spent a good chunk of the day cutting up all of the old boards stored under the front porch into firewood length and stacking them neatly back under the porch. This wood is really dry so the boys can use it to start their fires.

I had cleaned the inside of the cabin really well but I hadn't cleaned the high living room windows. There were quite a few spider webs on the ledges so I vacuumed them up while standing on a table and reaching up with the vacuum. Now the place looks really ship-shape.

On Thursday morning it was only about 10 degrees outside. My little heater ran pretty much continuously all night in order to keep the trailer above 60 degrees on the inside. The weather is supposed to warm up before the scouts come up on the weekend. That's good because the boys will be camping outside in the snow.

I swept out the privy and then set up the OSB table on the porch to make a kitchen for the scouts. Bert and Ernie came by for a visit and dog biscuits.

I took my new bin inventory sheets down to the crawlspace and updated them with a few corrections. Some of the dictation of the contents was unintelligible so I had marked those entries and now looked back into those bins and recorded what was in them. Now I just need to update the inventory and print new sheets. I'll also do that each time I add contents to any of the empty bins. I left for home at 12:50 feeling pretty well prepared for the scouts' visit on the weekend.