Rebecca and Sharon (two of Jason's crew who were up here over the Labor Day weekend) gave me a ride into Canton to pick up my truck with its new muffler and 4 new tires. The steel belts had started to show through on one of the old back tires!

Picked elderberries and made a batch of elderberry jelly.

Picked the last of the blackberries and made a batch of jelly.

Pulled the first board on the spilldam.

Made more elderberry jelly.

We'd been trying to get a few old sluice pipes cut up so that we could haul them away for scrap but we couldn't find anyone to do it. Finally i decided to start up the bulldozer (a nice little JD-350C) and i smashed 'em flat. It was fun. Note the before and after pictures above.

Redid the pulley system on the treehouse so that the ropes wouldn't tangle up. Then i picked a bunch of apples off of a couple wild apple trees on our property and made some apple butter. Unfortunately i burned it a little so it has a kind of carbony taste.

Made more apple butter.

Built the structure for the last bridge on the path to the top of the lake. I had to build it in place since it was the furthest away from any access point so all the lumber had to be lugged in by hand.

Leveled the bridge and nailed the two halves together (it's a long bridge).

Drove down to Williamsport with the load of scrap metal. 400 pounds: 16 dollars. I bought a bunch of deck boards for the last bridge too.

Put the deck on the bridge. I had to run over to shunk that evening to get some of my stuff from the garage (sold some computer junk on eBay, including my old Powerbook for $64) and saw this sunset over the cornfields on my way back.