Cabin Cleanup and Various Other Jobs

I headed for the cabin on the evening of February 28th with a cold coming on. I knew that I wouldn't be feeling great for the weekend either way so I figured I might as well get some work done. My main focus was continuing the big job of packing up the cabin and cleaning.

I got an early start on Saturday morning as plugged in the vacuum and worked on getting all of the cobwebs that have built up over the last several years. I also trimmed off the excess spray foam that we had used to fill in some gaps in the drywall on the ceiling. After that, I turned my attention to taking everything off the walls and packing things away into tubs.

Back of the cabin with most things packed up

Old carpet pieces removed and everything else in tubs and crates

After the frost got burned off, I changed and headed outside to get a bunch of random jobs done. I messed around with the ATV battery for awhile before realizing that it needed some water added to it. After getting that handled and putting a charger on the battery, I hooked up the wagon to the riding mower and headed for the ridge. I had some downed trees to cut up and I also installed the new seat and back on the ridge tree stand.

New seat and back rest on the ridge tree stand

There is a country song in there somewhere

Downed tree in the big field food plot

Next, I grabbed the hand seeder and some clover seed and headed out to do some frost seeding. I had a good stand of clover in the ridge food plot last year so I just lightly over seeded that. Then I headed to the south end of the small field. The clover was a bit sparse there last year so I over seeded that a little heavier. Frost seeding has worked great for me in the past so I'm hoping for the same results this year. 

Ready to spread some clover seed

With the remainder of daylight, I hooked up the ATV mower and mowed off the plot screen on both food plots to prepare for burning later this spring. I also worked on getting several of the t-posts left behind in the orchard out of the ground and removed the old cages along side the cabin as well. 

ATV and mower ready to work

What was left of the small field plot screen

The brush mower did a good job

As the sun was setting, I walked down the big field to get a good picture of the sunset. There was a doe out feeding in the big field food plot so I snapped some pictures of her too. Even though I wasn't feeling the best, it was a beautiful ending to a great day. 

Doe feeding in the big field food plot

Beautiful sunset

After mass on Sunday morning, I got out the target and started working to sight in the muzzleloader with a single Triple-7 pellet for Abigail to hunt with. It is a tedious task to sight in a muzzleloader but I managed to get 8 shots in and am about half way there I think. A couple more range sessions with it and we should be good to go for youth season. 

Sighting in the muzzy

With everything done that I had planned, I headed for home late morning. I will be returning in a couple of weeks to finish cleaning in the cabin and take down all of the walls and shelves in preparation for finishing the drywall the first weekend of April. There is a lot of work ahead, but I'm excited for it!