Tree trimming & Heat

Gerry and I had planned on renting a gas powered polesaw today and cut back the huge amount of branches hanging over the road to the cabin.  Nobody up here bothers to trim along the road and the young saplings grow toward the center of the road in order to get as much sunlight as possible.  What we wind up with is a tunnel effect and when it rains or snows, the branches actually come down to the top of a car.  You can imagine what it does to a motorhome that is 13ft high and wide as a barn.  Major pin striping takes place as you run the gauntlet.

I had checked the weather forecast and it was forecasting the high 90s for Friday and over 100 for Saturday.  We manually cut some of the branches today and were totally wiped out after almost one hour.  Whoa Nellie, this isn't going to work.   Monday's forecast is for a high of 73 and that is more manageable for us.  If it doesn't rain, we will rent the polesaw and hack away at the branches and shrubs.  Hopefully we can cut them back enough to get the motorhome out in September without having to do it again.

Other than settling in and trying to stay cool, we haven't been doing that many interesting things.  We did stop at the Fickle Pickle today and grab something to eat.  Judy, the owner of the shop was there and was very talkative filling me in on what's been going on up here on the mountain.  She have been trying to sell the sandwich shop, but haven't had any takers so far.  I think her customer base is too small to make it worthwhile to make a living there.

We did see two rvers up here on the mountain that are obviously boondocking.  That is the first time we've seen boondockers here in the area.  One unit was quite old and had set up in a parking area where the horse people park their trailers and the other was a new 23ft Class B unit powered by a diesel engine.  I wonder if it is the sign of the times that they are there or just some people taking advantage of free camping for a while?  We are close to Gettysburg and camping there is quite expensive, so maybe they were taking day trips there and back for the night.   Boondocking is quite common out west and you see people all over the place doing it.  Not so common here in the East.

We watched the movie Unstoppable last night and it was really good.  It is based on a true story and kept you on the edge of your seat during movie and the suspense was killing us.  It came out a few years ago, but this was our first chance to see the movie.  I highly recommend it if you like action movies with a storyline.