Seemed like it took forever for Mr. Troutbend to get here, but he has made up for it by getting projects done.

He found this unopened gallon of RV antifreeze along the river, washed down in the flood.



So far he has: put up the private fishing boundary signs on the river; picked up flood debris; sawed some of it up with a hacksaw so it'll fit in the trash bin; mowed the lawns; dug six wheelbarrow loads of dirt out from under the Brown Palace and repaired a burst water pipe in an impossible spot; blocked off the furnace vents on the the Brown Palace (we are decommissioning the flood-damaged furnace); installed a new clothesline after the old one was ruined in the Mother's Day heavy snow storm; moved loads of sand onto the muddy parts of the driveway; cleaned off the back patio at the Brown Palace; set up the clothes washer at the Brown; sawed up and split firewood from clean flood debris. And probably more that I have forgotten.

He'll be here only seven weeks this summer, so every day counts.