Dear Diary,
I woke up this morning to someone stuffing water bottles in me, and grabbing the chainsaw. It seemed almost like an afterthought where my driver picked up his chainsaw. This will not be a normal commute to his law office, I thought.
Wait one cotton-picking minute, what's the dog doing coming along with us?
Next thing I know, we're running up the road to Granite falls, and the point of our last summer mission at Monte Cristo mine. This should be fun, nice paved road, a bit of gravel; but all-in-all, a pretty easy commute....
umm. no
We get up to the snowline, and my first job is pulling some ranger out of the ditch - guy stopped to hit the port-a-potty (he missed, there was yellow snow next to his truck) and couldn't get moving again. My driver said something about "when we going to put that exploder rear differential in?"
Given the struggles of the other vehicle, I was in the lead breaking trail... until.... trees, the natural enemy of a Hummer - they're green, therefore, they must be eliminated. Fortunately, the reason for the chainsaw became pretty apparent - trees also fall down (hurray).
I should probably mention, the driver's friend, the guy with a car like my driver's said he'd come along today - it was his first time out in the woods in 4wd.... bet he was thinking "sleigh ride" - he said something about "breathing problems" and they said "great, pull on that tree" ....
finally, they gave up and hooked me up
they tried the same thing with one of those inferior Jeeps.... with predictable results
doesn't my driver look like a dork?
(orange coat)
it was a fun day - except - see the Jeep in the back of the picture?
apparently my driver wasn't working fast enough clearing the trail, so after this tree, my driver let him around and got flipped off by the Jeep's driver...
I woke up this morning to someone stuffing water bottles in me, and grabbing the chainsaw. It seemed almost like an afterthought where my driver picked up his chainsaw. This will not be a normal commute to his law office, I thought.
Wait one cotton-picking minute, what's the dog doing coming along with us?
Next thing I know, we're running up the road to Granite falls, and the point of our last summer mission at Monte Cristo mine. This should be fun, nice paved road, a bit of gravel; but all-in-all, a pretty easy commute....
umm. no
We get up to the snowline, and my first job is pulling some ranger out of the ditch - guy stopped to hit the port-a-potty (he missed, there was yellow snow next to his truck) and couldn't get moving again. My driver said something about "when we going to put that exploder rear differential in?"
Given the struggles of the other vehicle, I was in the lead breaking trail... until.... trees, the natural enemy of a Hummer - they're green, therefore, they must be eliminated. Fortunately, the reason for the chainsaw became pretty apparent - trees also fall down (hurray).
I should probably mention, the driver's friend, the guy with a car like my driver's said he'd come along today - it was his first time out in the woods in 4wd.... bet he was thinking "sleigh ride" - he said something about "breathing problems" and they said "great, pull on that tree" ....
finally, they gave up and hooked me up
they tried the same thing with one of those inferior Jeeps.... with predictable results
doesn't my driver look like a dork?
(orange coat)
it was a fun day - except - see the Jeep in the back of the picture?
apparently my driver wasn't working fast enough clearing the trail, so after this tree, my driver let him around and got flipped off by the Jeep's driver...
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