Log moving time!

While our main goal in coming to Colorado this week was to have some time off, visit family and generally relax, we also have the priveledge of picking up the first set of logs to build our future garden shed.  We are benefiting from a windstorm in the community where Jeremy's grandparents live.  It blew down somewhere around 200 trees that they are now cleaning up.  Instead of paying people to cut up and carry off the wood, Jeremy's grandpa, Ott, is cutting it into logs and we are going to bring at least some of it to Kansas to use on the farm.  We cannot express our gratitude enough. 

Phyllis and Ott Lehrman

For this trip, we will be bringing 5 large logs and 6 smaller ones home.  Getting the logs loaded was an adventure.  The first 5 went on pretty well.  Ott used his skid steer to pick them out of the pile and then put them on the trailer. 

This is the pile before we pulled logs to take on this trip

Ott and the skid steer - he was awesome!

Then we had to pull some other smaller logs from other posts.  That required some trimming with the chain saw, rearranging and a little bit of adventure getting them over to the trailer.  We got them all loaded though!

Jeremy and Ott with the loaded trailer

The 6 smaller ones will hopefully form the vertical posts for the garden shed.  They will be peeled and have their ends squared off, but will otherwise stay in the round.  The 5 larger ones will probably turn into decking and braces.  We will be making another trip in the near future for some 12 foot logs that will become the main horizontal members.  Stay tuned!

And, just in case you think we aren't doing anything fun, here are a few pictures from the vacation part of our vacation!  :-)

On top of Pikes Peak

Napping after a 5 mile hike to Comanche Lake