Halfway through the weekend...

Today was pretty decent, as far as winter goes. Relatively sunny, in the low 40s, and not too windy. I spent most of it outside cleaning up the property. Last year Brad cut down some trees in the area of our house's 19th century summer kitchen. I removed most of the trees, and used a lopper to trim a giant pile of kindling for the woodstove. The summer kitchen has been used as a trash pit for probably the last 50 or 75 years of this house's existence, so I've also slowly been getting rid of junk. Eventually when the surface is cleaned of most debris, I'll get to the fun part - excavating the summer kitchen! We've already recovered a number of artifacts from a cursory examination last summer, including lots of historic ceramics, bricks, patent medicine bottles, etc.

Brad spent part of the day working on the 101. 1 down, 2 Rovers to go. Actually the 109 only needs a new battery and windscreen. The 88 has a few more issues, though all are relatively minor. I'd rather not drive it for the time being, though, without an emergency brake. The weather was somewhat mild today, but, generally, Brad hasn't wanted to spend a lot of time outside this season working on the Rovers. We're hoping to erect a pole barn / garage in the spring when the weather breaks...