[RHClarke]

The weather has been both warm and cold. Warm during the day and cold during the night. The roads are frozen when we arrive at the barn in the morning, but by 10AM they turn into mud swamps. This has been a very cool spring and the snow is gradually disappearing. There has not been too much going on at the barn for the past few weeks other than spring clean up and maintenance.

This weekend Bob, Grant and I got together on Saturday to do some barn chores. We removed Bob's concrete pad in the barn, and began deconstructing the old 45 HUP parking garage foundation. There was some CMP work completed as I test ran the HUP to see if last week's waterpump repair took hold. The truck started with relative ease and to my great relief there were no coolant leaks.

Bob and Grant removed the snowblower from the back of the tractor and completed some routine maintenance on the old girl. Later that day I convinced Bob to help me move some parts to the top of the new sea container. We hoisted the nose for the HUP with the bucket of the tractor to take advantage of all that spare space.

While I was up there, I noticed that the roof of Bob's container was in need of some maintenance. When it get a little warmer out, we will be fixing the rusty spots. In the meanwhile, we will be concentrating on diverting the run off water from the grounds and roads, finishing the wiring on the 45 HUP and starting to reassemble Bob's sheet metal. We may even see the emergence of Grant's radio truck.

While we have been somewhat hamstrung by the weather, we are looking forward to a warm, dry summer and the various MV events taking place - including Bob's BBQ!

Photos:

1 - The yard
2 - Nice view of the new storage space
3 - The HUP looks nice from this angle
4 - Bob loading the last of the concrete pad - it will be used to fill in some of the holes we are expecting this spring