"Weekend" in review
Aug. 8th, 2009 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormIt's hard to complain when you constantly refer to a workweek just passed as "the weekend". I had a pretty fantastic week, all things considered-- and a pretty fantastic week overall, too. I was starting to crash Friday afternoon when we left to come back just because that is a lot of time to spend with people and without alone time, but on the ride back we switched up people in the trucks and it was good.
Everyone more-or-less got along, I didn't feel too too weird, we got a lot of work done (though it felt like a very lazy time, there were no 8-hour shifts or anything, we just sort of worked more-or-less during the day with nap or swim breaks), food was made for us and was delicious, it rained only a little, the wildfire that forced an evacuation notice started up as we were leaving and not before... all good really.
Did a bunch of chainsawing, some baby-tree-armageddoning with a weed-whacker in a pasture-to-be ("power-scythe" according to Wendell Berry), replaced some toprails on a fence, and various other bits and pieces. It's nice to work with your hands doing something that feels like it will last and be useful. So much that I do here I do in the name of someone's sense of garden fashion, it's useless or counterproductive to soil health, and it'll all be undone in a few weeks anyhow.
Chopping wood is nice too. Every time I sliced off another round, I could picture it going into the stove that winter to keep our host warm.
Two pictures, because a picture is worth yadda yadda, more details later. I want to catch the farmer's market &c.
Everyone more-or-less got along, I didn't feel too too weird, we got a lot of work done (though it felt like a very lazy time, there were no 8-hour shifts or anything, we just sort of worked more-or-less during the day with nap or swim breaks), food was made for us and was delicious, it rained only a little, the wildfire that forced an evacuation notice started up as we were leaving and not before... all good really.
Did a bunch of chainsawing, some baby-tree-armageddoning with a weed-whacker in a pasture-to-be ("power-scythe" according to Wendell Berry), replaced some toprails on a fence, and various other bits and pieces. It's nice to work with your hands doing something that feels like it will last and be useful. So much that I do here I do in the name of someone's sense of garden fashion, it's useless or counterproductive to soil health, and it'll all be undone in a few weeks anyhow.
Chopping wood is nice too. Every time I sliced off another round, I could picture it going into the stove that winter to keep our host warm.
Two pictures, because a picture is worth yadda yadda, more details later. I want to catch the farmer's market &c.
