all these years i gave steve shit about blowing his nose without a tissue. you know, holding one side and leaning over and blowing the other onto the ground. i guess it's a guy thing, ? a construction guy thing? i don't know. i do get the running nose thing now though. down there clearing land i notice my nose runs a lot and i wipe my snot on my sleeve or lean forward and let it drip on the ground. you will be happy to know that I've yet to reach the actual blowing out one side while holding the other...let's hope i don't get that far!
and in keeping with the mode of "let's scare the shit outta talyne this week", yesterday a sixty foot tall cottonwood tree went a different way when it was felled than we originally thought it would, so...once again, in less than five days, I was diving into the woods as fast as i could go. Only this time I was carrying a hatchet! good thing I didn't fall down. As I came back onto the trail there where i had been standing were two - five foot long limbs. good thing I'm still such a nimble little minx.
but seriously, you should have see the dog. it scared the crap out of her. she took off running down the trail. with good reason, the top landed about ten feet from where she was laying. when I realized where she was, (I knew she wasn't under the tree), I called her and she didn't want to come back. when she finally did, she was absolutely shaking! just trembling. poor thing. needless to say, we shut down the chain saw and came back up to the cabin so she could calm down. Actually it was pretty funny. (don't tell the dog I said that).
yesterday was the first time i went down the east trail since the moose incident. it was a little bit interesting to see the hoof tracks as they rounded the curves...(right on my ass). it made me shudder. she's gone btw. I guess she had too much of us. it was such a gift to have them here but i'm glad they've moved on. i'm definitely more wary outside now. complacency...gone
