woodpecker took the opportunity after the damage.
I made it up to the castle finally after a couple months. I was stunned to see how beautiful the trees had filled in with leafs since the last visit. The south stairs and floor where covered with thick green foliage that made a nice room type place. Sad destruction to report since the last visit to one particular little tree that borders the south side of the rock floor. The tree had three limbs of equal size about 3 inches in diameter. I had a metal wire holding them together in an attempt to guide it upwards and then out. But now two of those branches have been twisted off in some ass's attempt to make a fire, I guess. A couple other branches littered the area around the castle that I believe came off the large tree. The main tree had a 5 inch spot hacked at its base with maybe a hatchet. Damn kids is what I'm thinking. This is going to lead to more frequent visits at sunset in hopes of catching the guilty party. I'm also thinking of getting a metal sign to put high on the telephone pole on the way to the castle with rules of conduct.
Rules
#1 No Glass
#2 Bring your own damn wood
#3 pack out what you pack in
#4 don't move the rocks
Anyways I worked a couple hours including picking up all the large glass pieces I could find in the castle. I also deconstructed part of the stone floor and made some real progress in it construction near where the large boulder use to stand. I arranged some rocks near the fire pit on the top of the front wall and rolled a large rock into the castle in preparations for its use somewhere. I did some more surveying on the idea of incorporating the trees to the south east with more stone floor and stairs. Time to get my camera up there after the next effort at its new developments.
