Best Valentine’s Day weekend ever.
I got to spend it with my lovely fiancée, Haley, and while our time
together was short it was ever so sweet.
You know your significant other loves you when he or she watches a
zombie movie with you on a romantic getaway.
Anywho, I had so much fun and I can only hope that with both of our
unpredictable schedules that this weekend will not be our last until the
ever-so-distant summer.
Short on sleep, I made my way back to St. Louis where I had just
enough time to throw my things and myself in a truck heading out to Peck
Ranch. It looks like we will be here at
least until the end of the month—it also means that we will continue to only
have one day weekends for the duration of February. Good news is my wrist is feeling better! I’m just hoping that it stays that way with
the extended hours.
Upon arriving at the ranch we met up with Marshall, our contact,
who was in a much better mood than he was last week. If you ever saw the Parks and Rec episode
with the Snake Juice, he was on the verge of being that sort of Ron
Swanson. He took us to a new project site
to work on fire line, where we promptly started felling snags and dragging away
larger fuels because we only had a couple hours. Beautiful and peaceful is the best way to
describe today… except for one thing: my car.
Right when I was pulling out of the hotel where Haley and I stayed the
service engine light came on. I popped the
hood to check my oil, as that is one of the few things I know how to do, and to
my horror the cap to my oil compartment was missing. After a little investigating I found it
tucked in the corner of my engine… but I can only surmise that it has been off
for some time, possibly since I last checked the oil 3 or so weeks ago. I think something may have contaminated the
oil and thereby done some damage to the engine.
I put in another quart, triple checked to make sure the cap was secured,
and drove to St. Louis without any hiccups.
Hopefully I can get either Dathan or Will to take a peek at it in the
near future to see if my suspicion is correct.
I’m going to go
try and catch up on some sleep. Talk to
you all tomorrow!
The first composition was put together by Haley. The last three photos were taken by me.
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