The storm worked perfectly with my schedule today. In the early morning it was just misting in between light rain. Driving up the hill you really only needed your wipers on extra slow. The fog became pretty heavy at about 500′ elevation and I had to slow down. By the time I made it to the canyon gate it was just misting, not raining. I love walking around in the canyon woods, in that weather. It feels like you are scuba diving. The world is under a wonderful green canopy over moss and fern covered rocks and trees. All the amazing shades of greens, yellows, and browns. The wind gently swathing the trees gives the sense of waves.
So instead of staying in the shop to start building the Top Bar beehives I ventured out with Juan to find any over looked patches of Scotch Broom for pulling up. It is amazing how easily the young broom plants pull out of the ground, long tap root and all, when the ground is moist. Winter/spring is the only broom pulling season. When the soil dries out it is impossible to pull even the smallest plants out by their roots. We have made very good progress over the years with beating back the broom. There are now only a few big plant patches – that I know of. So going around and searching out the emerging broom patches is an important chore.