Saturday, July 7, 2007

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay



So today I cut down a tree with a chainsaw, partially while I was standing in it! Okay, so I only cut the branches above my head while I was actually in the tree, but it was fun nonetheless. The part I cut was to my right in the picture, and stretched twenty feet or so above my head, forking into two big branches. Though it probably could have fallen on my head and knocked me to my death/the ground (20 feet below or so), it didn't. I proceeded to split it into functional firewood. We haven't used a wood-burning stove since I was probably ten, and I only did a little bit of wood splitting back then, so it was cool to try it again.

Two posts in a row! I'm just trying to get in my licks while I'm in the country.

In other news, I went running up the road and saw a bunch of berries that needed pickin'. So much to do before I leave...

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