working on Horseshoe Island tipi
Friday, June 23, 2006
1:43 PM
Oh, so it’s 1:43pm! I did hear Gary’s bus go by not too long ago.
I’ve been working like a busy beaver. I have now got 20 poles on my tipi on Horseshoe Island. It’s a nice tipi. I have hung up my hammock from two of the main supporting poles.
It’s really nice in there. I can lie down on my hammock and the tops of the alders that were alive have shady leaves on them. So I am in the shade, even though my tipi doesn’t have a canopy on to or anything. I guess 20 poles keeps it pretty shady, just from that much sun being blocked out. It’s the tops though, that really do the job for me
I don’t need any bug repellant over there, either. It’s not so thick and dense as it is on the lower side of the stream.
I only had to cut a few trees down, the rest were dead and straight. All I had to do was break them off at the bottom. A few had to be cut off where they hadn’t broken off cleanly.
I put them all in a pile sticking from my entrance pathway into the water. From there it was easy to swim then around to the entrance.
Hey, I hear a northern waterthrush again! Cool. It’s over by the spring lodge the beavers made years and years ago.
I was very content relaxing in my hammock over there, but I wanted to come over and get my book, emotional intelligence. When I came back over here, I tried walking on the low dam, the first ones the beavers ever made at the corner of the stream. It’s okay for walking across on it.
I think I can easily take my book back across there that way. ‘I’ll also take my hat I guess. My binoculars would be nice, too
A beautiful orange Baltimore oriole flew across over in the alders.
I’ve put the white chairs around the campfire spot down here. It’s really nice down here. I took a chair, one of my Adirondack chairs over to the other side of the island, so I can sit in the shade over there to read if I want to.
I floated the chair across, swimming alongside it. I was pleased to see that it mostly floated! Pretty nice!
The birds are starting to sing more now.
I’m getting kind of hungry. I don’t want to go up for food, though. Not yet. I want to do more on the tipi. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing with it, but I am trying to block out the sunlight so it’s shady in there.
I only came back over for my book. I guess I should go back over now. When I saw my laptop on the picnic table, I thought I’d better just write about what I’d done, my two trips across with all those additional alders.
I’m being careful to pace myself, not to work too fast, or do too much and exhaust myself.
I’ve taken a bottle of mosquito repellant over there now, too.
Oh look, some cloud cover!
1:43 PM
Oh, so it’s 1:43pm! I did hear Gary’s bus go by not too long ago.
I’ve been working like a busy beaver. I have now got 20 poles on my tipi on Horseshoe Island. It’s a nice tipi. I have hung up my hammock from two of the main supporting poles.
It’s really nice in there. I can lie down on my hammock and the tops of the alders that were alive have shady leaves on them. So I am in the shade, even though my tipi doesn’t have a canopy on to or anything. I guess 20 poles keeps it pretty shady, just from that much sun being blocked out. It’s the tops though, that really do the job for me
I don’t need any bug repellant over there, either. It’s not so thick and dense as it is on the lower side of the stream.
I only had to cut a few trees down, the rest were dead and straight. All I had to do was break them off at the bottom. A few had to be cut off where they hadn’t broken off cleanly.
I put them all in a pile sticking from my entrance pathway into the water. From there it was easy to swim then around to the entrance.
Hey, I hear a northern waterthrush again! Cool. It’s over by the spring lodge the beavers made years and years ago.
I was very content relaxing in my hammock over there, but I wanted to come over and get my book, emotional intelligence. When I came back over here, I tried walking on the low dam, the first ones the beavers ever made at the corner of the stream. It’s okay for walking across on it.
I think I can easily take my book back across there that way. ‘I’ll also take my hat I guess. My binoculars would be nice, too
A beautiful orange Baltimore oriole flew across over in the alders.
I’ve put the white chairs around the campfire spot down here. It’s really nice down here. I took a chair, one of my Adirondack chairs over to the other side of the island, so I can sit in the shade over there to read if I want to.
I floated the chair across, swimming alongside it. I was pleased to see that it mostly floated! Pretty nice!
The birds are starting to sing more now.
I’m getting kind of hungry. I don’t want to go up for food, though. Not yet. I want to do more on the tipi. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing with it, but I am trying to block out the sunlight so it’s shady in there.
I only came back over for my book. I guess I should go back over now. When I saw my laptop on the picnic table, I thought I’d better just write about what I’d done, my two trips across with all those additional alders.
I’m being careful to pace myself, not to work too fast, or do too much and exhaust myself.
I’ve taken a bottle of mosquito repellant over there now, too.
Oh look, some cloud cover!