Cardinals need a
win tonight. As you have probably heard by now, my home state Tigers were
knocked out by the Red Sox and now my current state team, the Cardinals, are on
the verge of losing. Will has this theory that if one gets his or her bad
luck out of the way early then one only has good luck to deal with. For
this reason he buys a lottery ticket every time we are about to go on a big
trip. If he wins, he plays again. He plays until he loses just to
get the bad luck over with. So far this tactic has worked
splendidly! Except for the trailer tire blowing out on the way back from
Montana… we’ll blame that one on Eric though. The guy just couldn’t lose
when it came to lottery scratch offs. Anyways, today I lost my safety
glasses, participated in the losing of a nut for a chainsaw, and the orange
team’s truck got stuck in soft soil. If Will’s theory is correct, I think
the Cardinals are due a win.
For our service
project of the day we headed over to the Riney Conservation Area and dealt with
invasive Cedars. I cut down a tree twice as big as the largest I’ve
tackled thus far! It was about the size of the bar on my chainsaw, so
about 18 inches wide on any side you looked at it. The tree was a
beast. I ended up needing to bore into it because my quarter cuts in the
back didn’t quite connect. It fell right where I wanted it to too!
I tried to take a picture to document the moment but it seems I am still stuck
in Silent Hill. I settled for finding an angle that just made it look blurry
instead of foggy. Overall I am very happy with my felling today,
particularly my analytic abilities. Our leader, Dan Burch, tested me by
seeing if I would cut down certain cedars before the beast and, after taking
several moments to look them over, I made the correct call to flag one and let
the others be.
The movie of the
night was Zombieland. Everyone watched it and loved it. I think
Richard took particular interest in the film because John decided that if the
zombie apocalypse happened he would be Tallahassee. We were laughing at
the similarities between our Tallahassee and the movie’s just as much as we
were at the film’s quirky moments. If someone were to walk in on our viewing,
the person would probably assume this was the first time we’d seen the movie by
our reactions. We would have been an awesome midnight premier group, just
saying. I love Zombieland. The movie gets me like Bill Murray does
Wichita.
It just occurred
to me that I haven’t told you all where we’re staying. We're staying in
the mess hall of some kind of cool church camp. I believe it is called
Baptist Camp. It has a nice kitchen that we have been taking advantage
of, a pool, a small playground, a big pavilion, and lots of open fields.
There are dorms too… but they smell a little funny so we avoid them. By
Odin’s raven, Zeus and Thor came through for us today… although it sounds like
there is some tension building between the two. Rumor has it there is
going to be some throw-down tomorrow. Egos or something. But yeah,
the place we’re staying at is heated, spacious, and has electricity.
AmeriCorps is really spoiling us this week.
Before I turn
in, I just wanted to say how happy I am to be in this program—reiterate, if you
will, as I am sure I have muttered something similar before. When the
Blue Hulk got stuck in the soft soil, everybody jumped out and helped get the
vehicle free. Each night when we return to the Baptist Camp, everybody
volunteers to help prepare our fantastic dinners. Everyone is so kind and
generous… it’s just incredible. I get to go to awesome places with
awesome people to do awesome things. Well, good night all and Happy
Hallo’s Eve!
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