My day has been a weird ( or maybe a perfect contrast?) mix of working on web site
development and then going out into the forest and working to collect
firewood with three burly men. I haul the rounds I can carry as they
chainsaw and do what I can not. We are working on a MASSIVE (four foot
diameter) madrone which died a few years ago. Then we haul them, load by
load, back to my driveway (no cement involved here...think wide expanse
of gravelly terrain underneath oak trees.....and use a wood splitter to
break the VERY large pieces into useable sizes for my wood stove....my
only winter heat....I was accidentally mauled by a loose round that
crashed in to my hand and THANKFULLY did not break anything....leaving
only a large swelling, a mashed skin site and blood....and this is when I
remind myself that I have well earned my wilderness woman
badge....because I kept working for another three hours THEN came in to
ICE it. Oh did that feel good! And now the treat of hanging around with
friends just making silly talk after all the hard work. LIFE! it is so
rich and varied out in the wilds.
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