The Campfire Trail: September 23

September 23, 2022

Day 357 of the Adventure

With much of the backhoe excavations done, it's time to bring in some of the other tools we've chosen for camp maintenance around here. Two of the tractor attachments that have been waiting patiently to arrive down here is a box blade and a brush hog. One for keeping the roadways leveled and the other to keep the underbrush cleared out in areas we want to be kept open. As you probably know by now, our tractor has been a critical part of the "opening up" of the land here and getting it developed to where it is now. These other implements are part of the next stage of keeping it civilized. Maybe I should say keeping the parts we want to be civilized. I'm still in favor of leaving most of it wild and untamed, just the way it is. Still, parts of it need to be...... civilized.

As we close in on the one year anniversary of purchasing our "Camp Run-Amuck", I'm actually very satisfied with the progress, even though it feels like we should be further along. Part of that, is me still trying to apply the past intensity levels of resort work onto this property. This is something I still need to get over. My claim was that this was a project we planned as our "slow down" project. It's time to accept the slower pace as good enough.

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.”

― Joseph Campbell

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