Had a beautiful sunny day for the most part yesterday, should have been here! By evening it was raining hard and what was once a nice dry campground, is now a partially wet to muddy area. It is not to bad, with the gravel that was delivered and distributed by Plumma and Homer, it is not to bad. Outlook, gloomy as we are still having rain throughout the area including LA. Suppose to have semi cloudy, cloudy, misty, possibility of rain, showers, sun breaks, throughout the weekend, the good news is that there are no frost warnings!
Little Bull Moose and I hauled firewood yesterday, with the help of Golden Grammy we were able to cut it up and organize it. There is one pile of wood for "stoakers", those big ones that will burn all night and put out no heat. The second pile is behind the Buffalo wallow and is comprised of dimensional wood for kindling. The third pile consists of that nice wood that will build a hot fire and occasionally explode and is located in front of the Bear Den.
We also took the time to spray some additional fire retardant on the cook tent in the event that Homer decides he wants to try his hand at the culinary arts once again. Was going to try to install a sprinkler system but the little 12 volt bilge pump that I put in the central lake to supply water kept getting plugged up with mud but the concept was good. With a little more plastic pipe, I may be able to reach the Kroc Pond for a water source that is almost clean.
Still have a little "animal control" problem, the dogs and I were chased back into the house the other night by a very mad cow moose that had lost her calf to dogs that belong to some distant neighbors. Golden Grammy and the kids were also chased inside previous to my encounter. A mad cow moose actually growls when she is charging. Still no actual sighting of the Bear, however, he has been leaving his signs along his normal path of travel. He is living in the meadow somewhere, I am not going to go looking for him or her based on the size of paw prints. Did find a "scat" pile next to my smokehouse so that may be an attractant to him but that last batch of smoked King Salmon turned out so well, I am not going to give up my smoker to a bear, however, I did move it down to the campground in order to get it away from the house. We may want to set up a schedule for a "night watchman" during the next several days just to be safe and keep all the tents free of food and as well move those tents in a little closer to the fire pit, don't want anybody to get "et up" as we did not get that rider on our insurance policy. From what little tracking I have done, it appears the furry creature prefers to hang out in the trees behind the multi-purpose building which could account for the disappearance of the magpies!