Way to go Spartans! I knew
you could do it. In addition to getting
to go to the Rose Bowl on its 100th anniversary you can claim that you were the
first team to beat the Urban Meyer led Buckeyes. Sorry I wasn’t able to witness the victory
first or even secondhand, but you can count on me tuning in to the game on
January1st. Go Green!
Ahem, I suppose we can now return to the field. There are trees, lots of them—though not as
many as there were at the start of the day.
The temperature got up to a balmy 23 degrees while we were serving over
at Blazing Star Glade. I personally cut
down 4 large trees and at least half a hundred smaller ones. Only one of my Cedar’s gave me problems. I failed to calculate the hill when I put in
my back cut which resulted in the back cut on one side being lower than the
face cut. It would have been lower,
rather, as I noticed it before I put in my 2nd quarter cut. So, I just used the latter step
method—cutting a level above the other quarter cut as to not interfere with the
wedge. The Red Cedar fell right where I
wanted it to. I am starting to feel like
I am either very lucky when it comes to felling or very intuitive as I know my
technique needs work. Here’s hoping it’s
the latter!
Good news is I’m
not feeling weak or sick anymore; bad news is the very center of my back hurts
something fierce. It feels like someone
is hammering a wedge in between my shoulder blades whenever I try to lift
anything with some weight to it. Maybe
it’s karma for all those trees that have fallen to these hands. Regardless, these next two days are going to
last an eternity if my back doesn’t fix itself.
Maybe sleep will do the trick.
Night friends.
Photo credit: Matthew Mitchell/MSU Athletic Communications Matthew Mitchell/MSU Athletic Communications
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