In the past few weeks much has happened:
We commuted daily to our project on another campsite where we played a hilarious game called "pick-up sticks" in which we picked up sticks, and set them down in a neat pile. It would have been even more fun if it had been for longer than 8 hours a day for a week on 30 acres of clear-cut land! However our fun was cut short when we were given the task of "planting" trees, a foreign concept for many of our team members. We ended up shoving over 5,000 of the little bastards into the ground and in a turn-around that would make the Lord chuckle (God, if you weren't aware, is a HUGE fan of irony as a form of humor) have spent this week chopping their elders down. Such are the ways of nature.
Another fun and exciting event involved our Unit Leader Ben "The Hawk" Richey arriving for a little visit. It was a time filled with dinner, talking, sleeping, talking, waking, talking and generally conversing about the nature of Ben Richey's detailed auto-biographical discussions of his early childhood. I use 'discussions' quite loosely if you can't or won't pick up on my sarcasm.
I have been to Seattle a few times now, and it never fails to provide a new adventure. The stories from that place will be with me forever. That's a fact darnit, they'll be with me and me alone, so don't ask about them!
Finally, the newest and most important development in the world of Joey: Future SPIKE knowledge!
I will be spending the next TWO spikes in and around the Plumas National Forest working with the National Parks Service. We will be active firefighters and first responders, and will work and live within the parks during our time there. I don't know much else, but I'll be sure to relay information as I recieve it. We will hopefully weather permitting be on a few prescribed burns, and hopefully some active fires. We will be with this project for the rest of Americorps, which should be a good and bad thing at the same time.
That is all! Thank's for checking in kids, check you next time...
-J
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I want to go to Seattle!!! Glad your having fun! Can't wait to hear more about your next SPIKE!
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Even though you get to work in the National Parks both generating and terminating various trees while living the good life out of doors sleeping with wolves and such, Uncle Sam still wants his cut. Therefore I have mailed various tax documents and info. Don't forget to render to Caesar by April 15.
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I think that you've failed to include an important possibility in your poll on how the world will end, particularly because of my viewpoint from down South. I voted for cats, because obviously they are evil, but at the same time, you needed to include that the earth would be torn apart by earthquakes. At any rate, your business up there sounds awesome, keep teaching those trees who's boss! (That's you) If you ever get bored, tell me, and I'll call you and entertain you with autobiographical stories about my childhood, as I know you will enjoy.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I made a blog, but it's not cool like yours, it's just random ramblings.
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