Well ain’t this something?
I’m posting on my blog the day of an entry! This is weird. Huh.
Well as the title may suggest, the crew I’m in is staying in St. Louis
this week and working in Forest Park. I
have driven through this park before, but only after today have I even begun to
grasp how large the place is. I do not
have the stamina to attempt describing the park today—let’s just say that it
was aptly named and come back to it another time. As for what we are doing in the area, we are
removing invasive species and putting in a trail. In addition to the Honeysuckle we cut out, we
were also told to take out Maple saplings as there is no shortage of them in
the park. There is one thing I’m curious
about, however. While Josh, our contact,
told us to leave the Black Locusts alone because without the proper herbicide
it will just grow back—he still had us cut Honeysuckle and some Winter Creeper,
which also come back in a Hydra like fashion.
I feel like it would be rude to question his tactics, but I think I will
ask Chelsea about it tomorrow.
Making trails is a lot harder than I thought. Instinctually I want to cut into the soil to
sever the roots, but if you go too deep then you have to fill the hole and the
whole process takes even longer. The
proper form requires skimming the surface of the ground with a bladed
instrument. I’m still working on it.
In other news, I
really like things that fit. Today I was
carrying around a handsaw in a leather sheath and I had a little too much fun
unsheathing and re-sheathing the serrated blade. It just felt cool… and kind of natural. Another favorite of mine is sliding batteries
into a 360 controller, but really anything that fits nicely will undoubtedly
garner my attention. With that, I’m
going to go watch some Monday night football as such opportunities will be a
rarity this year. Later!
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