Great turnout for the November work day, on a cool (low 40's), windy, and overcast day. The remnents of hurrican Noel threatened heavy rains, but we had no more than low racing clouds.
It was a day to clear up some of the blowdown off the clearing at the top of the hill. With Dan Carnevale and Barry Hervieux bravely manning the chain saws and the rest of us on the ropes we were able to get two dangerous "leaners" down to the ground. Both were 40'+ beech trees, partially rotted, and hung up in nearby trees. Looks like we'll have a few more tall beeches to take down by spring if the winter storms don't get them first.
In addtion to Dan and Barry, thanks to Ray Burk, John Davis, Steve Pielock, Glenn Benscoter, Peter Scherff, and Steven Herzberg for their efforts. We've now got a good pile of firewood stacked for the winter.
We had the stove fired up in the warming hut, it was nice to be able to thaw fingers and break the chill.
We also stored the 24" mirror vertically, which hopefully will solve our mouse issue in the storage shed. Barry also did a little of road maintenance on the way out to hopefully minimize any spring erosion this year.
The distant hillsides still had more than a hint of color, unusually late foliage this year.
-Ed
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