| | the bar to which all others are compared…
my second year of treeplanting used to be that bar. the bar of the worst. when some awful day rolled around i would think back on that season and say, 'at least i'm not hiking two hours up a mountain side with two boxes of trees on my hips and eight liters of water on my back for 11 cents a tree'. this season that all changed. the bar was raised and a new standard marked. i can safely say it has been the worst season in terms of contracts, quality specs, access, blah blah blah. i've climbed steeper mountains, planted more seedlots, screefed more tree spots and had to encourage others to do the same. personally, i can do it. i feel like i'm getting a little old to do so, but nonetheless i can still suck it up and plant the trees while grasping precariously to the side of a cliff face hoping the rock i'm placing all my weight on does not give way. telling someone else to do so is a whole other battle. and not always a fun one. but we survived. exhausted and elated, we've arrived in Alberta to the promise land of black mud gold and fast trenches. with four shifts left in the season, retirement is starting to smile wider, flashing it's grin whenever i catch a glimpse of the future. i'm not saying i'll never plant another tree but as for knowing exactly what i'll be doing from summer to summer, it's all up in the air, and if it includes my bags and shovel, then so be it, but if it doesn't, i'm sure another glorious adventure will welcome me with open arms and i'll smile in pure delight to be moving on.
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| | Posted 6/28/2009 2:32 PM - 8 Views - 0 eProps - 1 Comment
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