Saturday 5/29/2014

Today started out good. I slept in the car last night, I didn't know where I wanted to put my tent – it was late when I got back from the Rainbow Resort for dinner and didn't take the time to figure it out. When I woke this morning, I took my time getting up, then I did my stretching and then the first day

of the C25K program. It went well, I wasn't in pain and thought I could do more, then I reminded myself “that program is a success because of the way it is laid out” follow it and I may not hurt myself.

After the run, I got chainsaw, hedge trimmer and lopers out and started cutting the brush around base camp. Just after I started, my neighbor John stopped by with his dog Lucky. I walked him around base camp telling him this was one of two priorities and that I was going to ask him to come down and talk to me about the water system he had installed for the last owner of the property.

We walked up the trail to the cistern, and even though I had cleared the fallen trees from the path last month when I was her, there were more branches that must have fallen from the trees. He said he would bring his bulldozer over and clear the path, making it wider. I would then have access to the cistern and the “Spring box” which is above the cistern, then reroute the piping to the spring into the cistern so it can fill up and then spill over, once again allowing flow downstream. More on this project as we work on it.

After John left, I cut a lot of brush in different areas around the structure and created so many piles of brush I couldn't pile up more; so, I unpacked and setup the chipper\mulcher. I chipped and mulched most of one area and called it a day. I drove into CDA, to the Kroc Center, a health club owned by the Salvation army and took a shower, returned to Hauser, had dinner at the Rainbow Resort and came home, set up my tent, (sleeping in the car is too confining,) and went to bed.