<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3557" title="First Mule" src="http://i0.wp.com/pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1467146299173.jpg?w=1056" alt="" width="300" height="400" />In a previous post I mentioned a Mule, well here it is.This work horse gets Clive around the 60 acre forest, up and down steep paths. Tricia has another one for her own use. It's about half a mile between the house and barn so walking between the two is just too time consuming. It's also great for hauling around a variety of tools: chain saws; brush cutters; axes; etc.

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There's also a pick-up truck for collecting building materials from town. I  went with Clive into Home Depot in Ukiah on Sunday to buy some tools. The pick-up is a neglected beast and it carries several battle scars. The rear lights had both been smashed so I installed some new ones that Clive had ordered some time ago. It was a bit difficult fitting them to deformed body work.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1467146299176.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3556" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1467146299176-225x300.jpg" alt="wp-1467146299176.jpg" width="225" height="300" /></a>Outside the barn in the shade of the trees we split some logs using the electric log splitter. It makes easy work of splitting some fairly large logs and before long we had a significant pile ready for burning.

To finish the night off we did some star-gazing. In such a remote location the only light pollution is from the house, turn all the lights out and it's virtual darkness.  We managed to pick out Mars and Saturn but couldn't get the telescope to focus on them, maybe another night.