Welcome to Mulchville

According to the Ameren web site they have chipped about 122,000 cubic yards of downed trees at the Shut-Ins. That is enough mulch to cover a football field fifteen feet deep. Since they have to get rid of this stuff it is available for free and so is delivery. So I would estimate that there is at least 100 dump trucks of mulch that has been dumped at the south end of the BRL field and more back by the maintence shed. There is some at Lenny's and a large field between the Library and the old Bess Stop gas station. So by the time all of you return to Lesterville we ougth to be the mulch capitol of the Ozarks.

P.S. It's snowing in Peola Valley this morning, the first snow of 2006. Won't amount to much and it is real pretty. I always think that the first day of spring is March 5. That is the day that the Phoebes return to start repairing last years nest. Most people don't know about Phoebes, but they are a great little bird that come back to the same nest each year. We usually have about five nests here at the pottery and forge.