Last night I had the weirdest dream. Power around the world had been lost like in
the TV show Revolution—no electrical trinkets worked what-so-ever. I was the hero who managed to turn it back
on. Oprah, thrilled to have the
opportunity again, started a new talk show and invited me as her first
guest. I don’t remember any of the
questions or what my answers were, but after a couple of minutes I decided to
just start flying. Not only was I
flying, I was dancing—something those of you who have been around me awhile
know I don’t normally do. There was just
something about doing it in the air like I couldn’t fall so nothing would
appear clumsy or down right odd.
Anyways, Oprah wasn’t too keen on me hogging the spotlight so she
motioned for a commercial break and I flew back stage. Everyone wanted my autograph.
I awoke with a headache; I guess my mind’s eye took one too many
flashes from the paparazzi’s cameras.
Since today was our last day on project I just tossed back a couple of
pain killers and got to work. We hiked
in to Blazing Star again and repeated yesterday’s festivities. There were a couple of alterations. The first is that Slagathor worked for me…
for one tree. I ended up needing to do
some precision-like surgery on that Red Cedar to take it down so I’m glad we
were able to temporarily set aside our differences. After I had put in a face cut that was a bit
deeper than I anticipated and a solid back cut (a result of 2 quarter cuts) the
tree would not budge. I hammered my only
wedge into the back cut. Still
nothing. I remembered Jim, the sawyer
instructor from Montana, saying that in situations like this you can bore
through the middle of the holding wood so long as the holding wood on either
side remains intact. I gave it a shot
and it worked! I found out after the
fact that I had another miniscule wedge hiding in my chaps’s pocket… oops. I’d like to think I did everything right
under the circumstances as I went with the main lean and the branch lean. It was certainly good practice.
The second difference was that I wore my Nomex today so after
lunch I was the fire keeper. I was put
in charge of monitoring and condensing our burn piles. I did a pretty good job as 2 of the 3 fires
were a log away from being out by the time we had to roll out, which was less
than usual.
Other than that,
we got to watch 2 eagles flying about while chowing down on our lunches. It has been a tough week with the cold, but a
great week in every other category.
Until next time!
Our sawing mentor from Montana, Jim. Photo credit goes to Sean Kerr.
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