Training Log Archive: Charlie

Some AOWN and near AOWN activities today, as well as the happy confluence of having my large scale landscaper modifier and my cartographer at my home on the same day.

Seeded a couple of fields and surveyed Michael's work on another, then got him started on a woods road. Went out to chat him up around lunch time, and he reported that I had just missed a bobcat strolling across the field behind DeBarn.

The side field is looking particularly interesting - well smoothed out, and all the debris turned into a pleasant looking knoll with a substantial boulder on top.

Then we had the happy circumstance of being invited to dinner at the home of my forester, Jim Gillespie, out in Sharon. He has a new girlfriend and seemed pretty interested in showing her off. Also, he has a new house we haven't seen before, and it was all well worth the trip. Jim's house has a couple of particularly interesting features. One is that the trim and the furniture is generally made of particularly interesting looking wood that he has come across in his trade, and that he has sawn, dried, and then turned over to cabinetmakers of his acquaintance. The other interesting feature is his general decor - heavily into taxidermy. Several heads of deer and elk, a full beaver, a wild turkey and a coyote were all there. He had stashed most of these things in his bedroom, because he wasn't sure how we'd take it, but eventually it all came out. He has a really first class taxidermist. The beaver and the coyote were roadkill, but I think pretty much everything else came from Jim's hunting expeditions. And dinner was venison on the grill (delicious), shot with bow and arrow right there on Jim's property. His girlfriend is quite nice, and substantially tinier than Rhonda. She is a trail runner and was quite enthusiastic hearing about orienteering.