Current River - 1/19

I had this rather entertaining dream last night where the ERT decided to redo the Gangnam Style music video.  It is all pretty vague now, but I recall Brad doing all of the singing and that the final scene’s dance was amazingly epic with the whole crew taking part.  Not that it has to be Gangnam style, but I think putting up a music video may garner more attention to our program… speaking of… I’ve yet to confirm if this is true, but it sounds like the Emergency Response Team may be looking for a few new members come this February.  So if you like what you’ve read here and/or want to join me on this adventure let me know ASAP and I can get you more information!

Let’s see, oh yeah, we nearly had an incident in the woods today!  I was swamping for Danielle when I noticed a four legged creature with a light coat of fur moving in the distance.  It disappeared into a thicker part of the forest, but my senses were going haywire as they strained to find what looked like it might have been a mountain lion.  About a minute later it reappeared and was heading straight for Danielle whose back was turned to it.  Closer now, I was able to see that it was a yellow lab and tried to convey this to my partner who was running the chainsaw.  Due to the racket my verbal communication wasn’t exactly working so I started pointing persistently, which I later found out frustrated her because she thought I was indicating there was something wrong with a branch she just cut.  Hilarious.  If nothing else I successfully stopped her from felling a tree just as the dog walked by.  It didn’t even stop; it brushed within 2 feet of Danielle, turned its head toward her briefly as if to say “oh hai,” but it never broke its stride.  Just like that the yellow lab vanished back into the forest.  So yeah, that was exciting!

I almost feel ashamed to mention that I only got 8 Cedars today, but then I remember I only sawed for one tank of gas and two of my trees had limbs that could have used some face cuts.  So not a bad day’s work!  After completing our service hours for the day we headed into Salem to pick up supplies and treat ourselves for powering through.  We went to a pizza buffet at Pizza Inn and let’s just say climbing that hill to our project site tomorrow is going to be a much harder for all of us.  I can feel the food coma coming on now.  Ugh.  So good but so full.  Going to go star gaze for a couple minutes then hit the hay.  Later all!

And me, of course.  Photos were taken by various team mates on my new camera.