Looks like I am
a member of the blue team this week, which is both good and bad. It is
bad because I’ve gone from team yellow, to gold, to blue—just needs a little
more green and white. Ya know? I jest of course. There really isn’t anything bad about staying
at Fleecer. In fact, it is rather nice
as I just found out this place has cell phone service! I’ve already taken advantage of it and
contacted my parents and Haley and it sounds like life back home is going
pretty well. It also sounds like I will be doing something other than
preparing firewood this week, which will be a nice change of pace!
Weddings have
been the theme today. Chelsea Evans told us about how she met her
husband, I told everyone about how I proposed to Haley, and I got a voice mail
from a place inquiring if Haley and I were interested in getting married in
Indiana. It kind of made me feel like one of those highly sought after
athletes that get offers from tons of colleges… only instead of getting paid or
a full ride I would be the one forking over the bills. I still felt cool
though. We also had the group of folks that went into town to do laundry
pick up some movies. They got The Wedding Singer and Wedding
Crashers. Like I said, it has been a wedding kind of day.
Despite today
being my day off I have yet to find the will to bring myself to do
anything. I was going to go on a hike up a mountain with the guys, but by
the time they got back from doing laundry I was feeling lazy. I did get
to sleep in today. The sleeping bag made all the difference. While
I am still itching I no longer feel like things are crawling all over me.
Maybe they are just late developing seed tick bites.
Since we have a
bit of down time I thought I’d bring ya’ll up to date on the wild life I’ve
seen on this trip. The first lil guys I encountered were prairie
dogs. A group of wild prairie dogs had taken up residence by a gas
station in the Dakotas. They were extremely interested in the football
some of us were tossing around. Whenever it was tossed they left their
mounds in pursuit only to retreat when they noticed we were watching them. It was pretty cute. The next rare
creature was the buffalo that were roaming the plains in Wyoming. We only
saw them in passing, same with antelope (actually called prong-horns) in
Montana. The real curiosity for me is a black and white bird. It is
a black bird with an Aztec-looking white tattoo of a bird on its back.
It’s a very pretty bird and I’ve only seen it in Montana.
Other than
those, there are a lot of cattle. Lots of horses and lots of cows.
There was one herd of dark brown (or red) cows with a random white goat in the
middle acting like he owned the group. Man, the cows here don’t give a
crap about anything. We have to drive down a couple miles of dirt road to
get to our service projects. Almost every time there are roaming cows in
the way. I felt bad for them when the
snow storm hit; they just followed each other along the fence against the
biting wind. I was afraid one of the babies had died when we saw it lying
on the side of the road, but it stood right up when we passed by.
Tomorrow is my
saw certification test. I was thinking about going for a B certification
which would allow me to saw unsupervised, but the group that took it today said
that the instructor was being a little harsh. So, think I will just play
it safe and go for an A. I can always go for a higher rank later in the
year. Regardless, I have to be ready to go by 7:00 am tomorrow so I’m
going to go turn in. Until next time!
Photos by me, Ben Barber, and Sean Kerr (last 2) respectively.
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