Family Mellmann

With temperatures reaching almost 50 degrees Fahrenheit today and a bright sun in the sky, it was a good day to work in the yard.  Patrick helped me move stones, which we salvaged from Isle LaMotte two summers ago, from the pile where we abandon them to their new home on the east side of our property.  Two summers ago we did a deforestation project removing nearly all of the soldier pines and many of the hemlock from our forest.  In the newly open space, Patrick helped me build a patio space for the fire pit and my swing. Leveling the ground was nearly impossible as we fought with tree roots and buried logs from the logging operation, but we managed to piece together a patio. While I was leveling ground for the stones, Patrick did the ugly work of collecting dead bur plants and preparing them for a fire.  Last summer we were gone for a month which, during the summer growth period, is a really long time.  The weeds took over, and the worst weed is the bur.  Ours got to be over six f