It was brilliant and sunny again today and incongruously I spent the first part of the morning inside. I did some more work on the cedar cladding and then set up the foundation of the old woodshed. Then I repotted some beans that have come up. Some of the cucumbers are coming up in my raised bed. That might be the answer for the future. A few raised beds, although I don’t have a lot of metal sheets any more. 
I decided that I should do some work on the new bridge today, although I wonder why sometimes. I peeled some more of the log by the stream and cut it off at 26 feet so it is the same length as the old bridge. I walked on the old bridge to measure it and it cracked under my weight. It is hard to say whether it would work for another season anyway. I guess I could have installed it and then waited for the inevitable flood to carry it away. Instead, I’ve been wading.
I brought back some cedar from the pallet shed, since I ran out today, and I can see now how I might be able to use it all up. I’m nearly there already. There are perhaps fifty pieces left, which is perhaps a fifth of the original.
This evening I ran the chainsaw to slab out the piece of fir I dried from its fall from hurricane Arthur. I was only able to make three slabs before evening threatened, but it is perhaps ready to store against a day that I make a bandsaw mill.
I carried the other two beams into the workshop, although I cut off the end of one the ants were beginning to colonize. It is hard to stay ahead of them.
