Of course it required cutting even more saplings but my women put their feet down this time and made me give Biltee some chain saw operation lessons s...o I could do guard duty while he cut and they carried.There was no sense in me trying to argue so I showed him how things went, going so far as to make him wear safety glasses after I'd found a pair. This had the women berating me for not using them myself when I'd been cutting. They were right but at least I'd felt a little safer since greenie. "Cooking stuff yourself is fun. There's just a certain novelty in tossing slices of meat onto the heat plate and watching them sizzle. The problem is, each slice is only about a mouthful, and there's pretty limited space on the plate. It takes a long time to cook for six people if you have to work with a surface area not much larger than a piece of binder paper. And no, none of us were really into the boiled stuff. I guess we're too American, can't stand anything that hasn't been fried.. ’ The ladies had finished in the kitchen and joined us. Sara, holding their youngest, found a seat by Gene and I scooted over to let Claire sit on the couch. We talked for a while before it was time to put the children to bed. I volunteered to put Aaron and Amy down while Claire put Andrew in his crib. Up to this time he’d not needed the oxygen, but we were keeping an eye on him. When I finished, the three had resumed talking in the living room and I took my seat beside Claire. We talked late. They cut four trees and stripped a dozen ten foot long limbs, bundling them together. By the time they pulled the bundle back home, travois style, it was getting dark.That night Bella had her privacy and, for the first time, could sleep with AJ naked. She may be forgiven for not realizing that privacy can work two ways, and that a simple oil cloth isn't much of an obstacle to interested prying eyes. AJ may be forgiven for not thinking that an oil cloth might pass more light than he.