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Yesterday we found ourselves out of bags in the wood yard while we are fully balls deep in processing and bagging for the upcoming camping/firewood season. The old TW200 just sherpa’d a couple hundred bags down to the yard and got us back up to speed. My truck was on E as I pulled in to fuel up. $100 got me 17 gallons of diesel and I get about 9mpg in my service truck. So no shame in saving $15 worth of diesel, I ratchet strapped a grip of bags to the TDub and had myself a great ride in and out of the park. We have not raised our rates in 5 years, but we are fully feeling the squeeze of buying premium no ethanol gasoline and $6 diesel to process and transport hundreds of cords of firewood for the season. Looks like I might just park the service truck in the yard and ride the bike to and from the park every day. So I guess I am riding my favorite motorcycle to work a few days a week and that is actually awesome.

Not fun or sexy or inexpensive but at long last we are back to square 1 at our wood yard. We hauled about 25 semi loads of sawdust, shake, dirt, and debris out of the yard and we will lay down breaker run to help solid up our footprint. That’s hundreds of cubic yards of nice organic mulch for someone.

We opened up for cash sales this weekend in the park. 1st weekend after the end of “winter camping” and with 159 sites open, there were 159 reservations. The park hosted a half marathon and a 5k and the golf course opened for the season while we got the yard ready to sell Friday and Saturday. It was a beautiful evening in the park. We are processing kindling and bagging firewood daily for the season. We just put up the motor pool tent in the yard to give us a spot to park our dump truck under cover.

There are a ton of logs on the ground in the park. Today we came up on a nice pile of white ash and a very nice pair of bark off large oak trees. Very nice firewood.