Actually, four, but that doesn't work as a headline. If it's true that what goes up must come down, it is not true that when mice go down they can get back up. These mice have been returned to the wild. Others make a one-way trip to the dump. So far, although it is mouse time, none has made it into the house.

The morning spent logging—pulling out and chopping up the ash trees on our, and adjacent to, the property. Necessary, as poachers are working the Lane, taking off the high BTU stuff felled by the Hydro juggernaut.

This afternoon, a great, high speed Windride...