Kentucky

I'm back from spending a couple days with Ford and Amanda and her family up in Kentucky. Things didn't go quite according to the original plan, but I had a really good time. The drive up went fine, and it was raining by the time I got there (took about 8 hours). Ford had had a horrible time with the bush-hog he rented. I'll let him tell you that story. But basically, it changed our plans of bush-hogging the next day. That evening, we just hung out and chatted. The next day it poured most of the day, but we had decent weather when we went around and looked at the land. Quite rugged. Really quite a cool plot of land too. We spent the rest of the day watching movies. Yesterday, we hiked around on the land again and did a little work. There was a small stream that drained the area in the middle of the land, but it had been stopped up when a small access road was put across it when they logged it. So we dug a couple small trenches across it to drain the land. Got a lot of water going through them, but no noticeable lowering of the water. Then we went back to the house, ate a feast of a lunch, and I took off.
Zephyr had a great time too, and loved running all over the land, though she stayed close to us. She even wore out Speedy (Ford and Amanda's dog), but he's getting a bit old. I got to shoot a gun for the first time in my life, a 12-gauge autoloading shotgun. Man, those things are loud! They gave me some nice gifts too, and I felt bad for not bringing any for them...
Anywho, a few pictures.

On one of the flat benches in the hillside where they coal was stripped out.

Down in the bottom, looking up toward the ridge that is the boundary between their property and Amanda's dad's.

Ford and I digging a couple trenches to drain some of the flat land. Zephyr and Speedy goofing around too...

Ford, Amanda and Speedy hiking up the "left" side on our way back home.