[Loch-Ruadh] Mini GW Land Trip

[Aingeal]

The public works staff for the war is responsible for blocking the road off. 
I had that job assigned to me last year when I worked staff.

Aingeal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Sikes" <tdsikes at prodigy.net>
To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Mini GW Land Trip


> Hi, we're back.  Here's a report about the Gulf War
> land.
>
> Rolf and I left about Friday night after doing some
> light packing and getting ready.  We drove all night
> and arrived about 7:30 Saturday morning.  The Loch
> Ruadh land was badly overgrown and needed mowing, but
> the site looked as if Larry Stanford had been taking
> the site in turns, mowing grass and stacking wood and
> limbs and was about to start on Loch Ruadh and the
> other sites on Duvant Circle.
>
> Rolf and I went to work and spent a lot of attention
> clipping small trees and brush that were springing up
> all over the lot.  These were hard to find as the
> grass was high.  We also clipped off any low hanging
> branches and twigs sprouting low on tree trunks.  Rolf
> spread long term ant poison with a spreader over the
> most of the lot.  We also checked the corner boundary
> markers.
>
> The site has a lot of small trees and shrubs sprouting
> from roots.  There are also a lot of thorny vines on
> the site.  We cut all of these we could find, but I
> recommend that those going to Gulf War bring a small
> pair of pruning shears, loppers, or a small hand ax in
> case they have a sprout in the middle of their tent
> spot.  We left one oak tree that was 4 or 5 feet tall
> as we thought it might make into a good shade tree in
> a few years.  I measured the location of this tree and
> will point it on for our camp plan.  It is still small
> enough that it might get run over by a brush hog, and
> if it interferes with the camp plan it will not be too
> big to cut down at Gulf War or the next land trip.  We
> also left quite a bit of the shrubs on the bank by the
> road, as they are not in the way there and discourage
> people from walking through the camp.
>
> The corner markers were standing and in good shape.
> The marker by the water hose end at the corner of
> Queens Hwy. and Duvant Circle had a couple of dings
> about the size of a nickle that needed a touch of
> cement as the burlap showed.  It also looked as if it
> had been bumped at the bottom by a mower and the
> bottom edge pushed inward, but didn't really look bad.
> I trimmed sprouts around both of them and the water
> connection.
>
> Rolf commented that quite a bit of the firewood was
> gone, but it looked like most of the stumps we had
> used around the campfire were still there.
>
> We also noted that there are spots in the road (I
> guess it would be the continuation of Queens Highway)
> between the land and the bath house where rain has
> made gullies where a car or truck would get stuck.
> Unless these have been filled we might want to block
> traffic again this year or cars will be getting stuck.
>
> Before leaving the site we went and found Larry
> Stanford, who has obviously been hard at work.  Quite
> a few of the trees that had been knocked down by the
> hurricane last year had been sawn and removed and the
> cabin by the merchant area had been put back on it's
> foundation.  The fort needs some repair as the gates
> are off hinges and one of the towers is leaning (not
> sure if it wasn't leaning last year). Several of the
> groups have been hard at work adding fences and
> gateways.  We saw at least one new gate (forget whose)
> next to the Green Dragon Inn and several buildings in
> progress at Camp Nova.  Near us, Seleone has a new
> gateway made of a "house" shaped frame of 4x4's.
> Several sites have repaired, added to, or built new
> fences of various types of pickets.
>
> We ran out of things to do by about 9:30 and decided
> to forego staying the night and started back.  We both
> agreed on the trip back that Mississippi doesn't pay a
> lot of attention to smoothing the dips in the
> interstate.  We arrived in Terrell just after 6, a
> round trip of 960 miles.  Rolf arrived home at about
> 8:30.
>
> Next trip we will need to take several people and
> quite a few more tools.  In addition to making a start
> on the gateway, we may want to mow closer that what
> gets done with the brush-hog, as the tall weeds are
> choking out any grass we have been planting.  We
> didn't notice much in the way of fire ants, but these
> would be dormant with the cold weather so it may be
> necessary to treat a second time.
>
> Terrence
>
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