Staycation, Part Deux

It was another beautiful day for trail building today at Christie Lake but it wasn't without consequences! First, we were maybe ten minutes into building when we dug right through the heart of a nest of yellow jackets. They were not impressed.

Most of us escaped unscathed but I was stung in the ear (ouch!) and the shoulder. We decided that discretion was the better part of valour and moved ahead a bit. We'll give the wasps a week to relocate. If they don't decamp, we'll serve them with a more forceful eviction notice.

Not ten meters past the nest, we discovered that we'd routed the trail through a patch of poison ivy. Luckily, I'm not particularly sensitive to it so I was able to clear it out and get things moving again. Never the less, we were getting the sense that the forest might be trying to tell us something...

I'm a big fan of before and after pictures. You'll remember from last week that we stopped here:

End of the road

Here's what this same spot looks like today, fully built:

That there's a trail!

For your own reference, note that the wasp nest is right at the top of the little hump in the second photo.

We also popped into Dyment's farm market for some corn and peaches. Nothing says summer like Dyment's corn! Yum!

Toy tractor inspector hard at work

The rest of the day was spent gardening and tending to the pond. We rounded out the day with some BBQed ribs and field tomatoes on the back porch. Magic!