Well, they said the surveyors would be out to day and it looks like they were.

And they even noticed the camera.

As mentioned earlier two of the four corners are marked with some somewhat-official markers – a recent modern marker, and another corner has the original cap from the General Land Office in 1915. THe surveyour-boss emailed me to say that the other two are the ones theyre going to have to ‘calculate’. Since the property lines run N-S and E-W. I cant imagine it would be anymore difficult than a) go to known corner b) travel XXX yards in a straight line on the compass bearing. Where you stop is your corner. But, what do I know……..

And that wasnt the only visitor today. The local fox came by and appears to have brought a lunch with him….

He’s baaaaaack…..
ETA: Actually…might be a coyote…..

ETA: Looks like there were enough posts to finally get the tag “Beta Site” into the tag cloud on the right.

Looks like the fox is out looking for a late night snack….

As long as he keeps eating the rodents and stays outta my way we’ll get along just fine.

A bit blustery, foggy, and snowy at the Beta Site. Whatever I build there will have to be built with this sort of environ in mind.

As someone pointed out to me, I need to put a yardstick of some kind out there to give me metrics about about how deep the snow is.

The game cameras I put in are doing their job. THis guy decided to visit the Beta Site around eight this morning:

This is the second visitor that the game camera has caught. First one was a squirrel yesterday. Im not posting that, ’cause its pretty boring. This guy, though…a surprise. The area is also home to some rather larger denizens as well:

If they leave me alone, I’ll leave them alone. But if they wanna challenge me in a game of Food Chain Promotion/Demotion…..well…may the best mammal win.

And being a mildly intelligent animal, I know when to take risks and when not to. Today was a day not to. Tried to head up to the Beta Site but the snowmelt in the shaded draws had turned some twisty turns of road in to sheet ice. How bad? When I came to a stop I started sliding down hill…backwards. Fate smiled and I didnt go off the side of the road but I was in a not-great situation. Pulled a shovel from the back of the truck and spent an hour dumping dirt and gravel all along the road….not to get me to where I was going, but to allow me to leave in one piece. Managed to pull it off and headed straight to the tire store for a set of chains. Will also update the gear in the back to include a spud bar for breaking ice and least one bag of sand and salt.

So, todays trip up there was a bust. But I fully intend to be there tomorrow if the weather holds up.