Labor Day weekend here in SW Virginia consists of yard sales, yard sales and really big yard sales. I went to Galax through Hillsville Friday and the Labor Day Flea Market & Gun Show was going on. All along 221 there was yard sale after yard sale. This goes on all weekend, Friday to Monday. On my way to Floyd yesterday I had to be very careful of traffic on the road side. People had stopped all over the place to check out the sales and traffic was very slow. Kinda like it is on the Outer Banks in the summer; People going real slow because they don’t know when and where they are going to turn. The yard sales are a bit of a pain for me, I’m not a yard sale person but like the deer and raccoons they are apart of living here and I would not see them gone for anything.

I had plans for the next 4 days that have to be changed thanks to tropical storm Lee. For the past few days my brother down near the Big Easy has been getting some much needed rain and starting tonight and then over the next 3 days we will be getting some of that much needed rain. I had plans on putting a dent into my wood cutting duties. I have bought a new wood splitter and a gas powered chain saw and planed on spending at least 4 hours a day on cutting and splitting wood (I’m not going to kill my self working 8 hours a day with unfamiliar equipment!!). I’m going to go ahead and get started today but I know I wont come anywhere near finishing but we really need the rain and I’m sure I can find plenty of rainy day things to do.

My solution to the deer problem was to put a simple fence around the garden and then I will be putting an electric fence around that. It’s not the prettiest thing I have ever seen but I have seen worse and it is working for now.