We took a dozen bags of leaves, two buckets of rocks, and four buckets of dirt out to the ranch today to continue our road re-enforcement project.  We trimmed back some foliage.  All is well in the road department.  Our roadbed building efforts, coupled with fewer trips to the ranch in the last few years, have stabilized the roads.

We took Millie with us — she loves to run.  She also likes to play with the rat who has taken up residence in the Jeep.  Sadly, the rat has destroyed the driver seat of the Jeep to create a very cozy nest on the hood of the Jeep (we have plastic over it, so it was a very nice nest — until we swept it away.  This rat has been very destructive.  He’s destroyed the spark plug wires as well as the seat.  He’s been very fastidious and has only pooped on the floor of the passenger side of the Jeep.  And the hood has been his urinal.  We have to not only get the rat out of the Jeep but we need to winch it onto a trailer and bring it into town before he does much more damage.  That was disappointing.

Inside the motor home is a different story.  Since we seem to have gotten all the snakes out, the mice have moved in to play, and they have damaged it as well.  We will have to get the motorhome into town as well, gut it, and rebuild the interior.

My goal is to get all the equipment currently stored at the ranch hauled into town and safely stored inside at the shop.

There’s no shortage of work to be done around here.