It’s not a jacket, but it is lightweight, vented, and has long sleeves.  It’s a Magellan Lake Fork Fishing Shirt, and I found it at Academy for $19.99.  It should serve to protect my arms from foliage  as we work to clean up the overgrowth behind the shop.  We’ll see.

Yesterday, we reinforced the ranch road with about 50 buckets of pea gravel and tree shreddings.  We also reclaimed the Jeep from the rat (who had rebuilt her nest and had three babies since we were out there).  She was not interested in leaving the Jeep.  We could not have a rat in the shop, nor did we want to remove her from the ranch.  Since we could not convince her to relocate, we had to forcibly remove her from the Jeep which resulted in her untimely demise.  We were sad to have to do that, and I rather admire her resourcefulness.  But, like snakes in the house, rats in the shop or under the house are not an option.  Rats in the wilds of the ranch?  Just fine.

The Jeep is now safely ensconced in the shop, where it will have to have an entirely new wiring harness installed, since our dear rat chewed everything.  In one positive view on this, hubby has always planned to make this Jeep a show Jeep, so it would have needed a new wiring harness eventually anyway.

We still have the motorhome, an enclosed car trailer, the tractor, a VietNam era jeep trailer, and the tractor implements to “rescue” from the ranch and nestle into the shop for safekeeping and restoration.  The motorhome has not fared well during it’s time parked at the ranch either.  Hopefully, nothing’s been eating it’s wiring.  (Dreading that thought!)