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[greenstorm]

Field day at work today. That is, I was working out in the bush. It was a pretty nice block topographically - right by a big lake, but they'd left a good big protective reserve on the lake. Lots of chunks of granite cleaving off hillsides and little plunging ravines everywhere.

Also A LOT of bugs, mosquitoes and blackflies predominantly, and a ton of slide alder and blowdown. This will be a somewhat challenging block. Time to get out the veil and headscarf. I probably do need someone with me for some of those plots, too, it just is safer to have a second person if it's really physically challenging to get in and out of any particular spot. Luckily lots of it is near edges and so will be fine though.

Even with all that, and with a slow tire leak and of course this outfit doesn't stock its vehicles with little battery-powered compressors (easily my favourite piece of car equipment that can exist), it was nice to get out. Out again tomorrow, and then I take a summer student out a couple days next week. Hopefully I decompress by then, I am not in the mood to share a truck with a stranger right now.

Before that, though, I need to go home and handle some piglets that may not have been fed enough. Hopefully the sow's milk has come in by now. Also something about hanging my door and making dinner for mom.

Mmm. My fingers smell like balsam (or, like school calls it, subalpine fir).

Comments

[chemicalcain]

Your work sounds taxing but interesting. I love the geography once you get far enough north on the continent. The deep ravines where the glaciers ran their icy fingers through the soil, the exposed rock faces colonized by moss and adventurous trees.

[greenstorm]

We're not super rocky here, just enough for one good climbing face over the lake by town really. Lots of rolling bumpy low mountains and asker hills and so, so, so many trees. There's an Arrogant Worms (joke Canadiana) song that goes,

"Although we don't have history
Gold medal winning teams
Heroes or prisoners
World famous volcanoes
Still what we've got's glorious

'Cause we've got
Rocks and trees
And trees and rocks
And rocks and trees
And trees and rocks
And rocks and trees
And trees and rocks
And rocks and trees
And trees and rocks
And water..."

They are accurate.