Meanwhile I spent most of the day out in the campground finishing up the clean up after Samhain. We had some jack-o-lanterns left behind that I sorted through and threw the ones that were bad out on the compost pile with the pumpkin guts for next year. We actually had a pumpkin vine growing again with a bloom! Hopefully if we have a wetter summer next year we will get pumpkins!
It rained last Saturday night so everything was still wet on Sunday when everyone left so there was a lot of stuff that was just left out to dry like the tiki torches, two tents that we lent out, tables that needed washed off and some misc stuff that needed to go into the trailer. I cleaned all that up as well as organizing the trailer!
I also raked the area where the wood pile had been. Bill wanted to burn all the wood before we stacked more so that we could get to the stuff that had been sitting for 3 years so I raked that all up and burnt the leaves and rotten bits of wood. It took all day for it to completely burn. We went back out later after dark to check on it and it was really neat looking in the dark with just the red coals in a circle on the ground. There was enough heat coming off of it that despite the cool temps out in the woods we were quite comfortable until the pile burnt down to almost nothing.
We have some folks coming out the first weekend of November to use the campground so I wanted to make sure everything was cleaned up and ready to go by then. Bill will haul the wood we split a few weeks ago from where we split it up to start a new wood pile sometime next week.
Looking forward to this weekend - my niece is getting married on Saturday and Tom will be flying in for the wedding on Friday. Will be good to see him again and have a chance to set back and relax a bit on the weekend. Bill is here at my house in the city this week to do some much needed fall repairs and maintance so I'll have him all week! Woo Hoo!
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