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Welcome to my little corner of the inter-webs! I just wanted to take this space to warn you that my posts will rarely be up to date. Due to the spontaneity of natural disasters and the unpredictability of when AmeriCorps' services will be requested I will be digitizing my journal entries whenever we return to St. Louis. Oh, and most of the pictures you see here were taken by myself. If ever I do use someone else's material I make a point to give them due credit though! That said, come, leave comments and be merry! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Friday, June 20, 2014

Shawnee - 6/18

I’ve always considered myself to be a sword guy, but if a spear is anything like a pole saw I now view the weapon in a new light.  It has range, versatility, and it is deceivingly light—a good fit for someone like me who doesn’t have a ton of strength.

In regards to my strength or lack thereof, a couple more weeks of trail maintenance and I will be swinging broadswords with ease.  I chopped through a couple of fallen trees today with an axe—a feat I was hard-pressed to accomplish on my own last week.  It feels good to be doing work that involves the whole body again.  Our service combined with these crazy hot sauna temperature days is giving me the work out of my life.  I always feel like I want a couple days off to recover by day’s end, but hey, if this stuff was easy everybody would do it.


Another day has come and gone and another trail is done.  The name of our latest victim evades me, but we’ll see if I can get a head count tomorrow.  For now, it’s time to sleep.  Night friends!



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