Fishing & Baseball…Nuff Said

 07 Jun 2011 11:05:09 pm

We'll start with an update on work, and then move onto the fun stuff. The past week we’ve been doing a lot of cutting. Strengthening fire breaks by dropping, and dragging some cottonwood tree away from the line. Cutting is not so bad, but the dragging part sucks. I’m sort of embarrassed to say that the 80 degree day we had on Monday was about all that I could handle. Boy do I sound like a resident of northern Minnesota. It was tough work, but I managed through. Today we took a break from sawing and scouted a wildlife management area (wma) in the county to the north of us. There is an old run down fence that runs a mile and a half through the property that we will be taking out. We had to do a lot of walking and flagging to mark where the fence is. I think the fence was put in in the 1800’s. It’s all walked down and buried , so I’m sure it will be a challenge to get it out of there.
We’ve got orders placed for our sawing gear (we had been borrowing an local dnr office’s saws), and that makes me very happy. We actually got to pick the saw we wanted, and I believe will have our own saw. So here in a week or so I will be rocking a brand new Stihl 441 magnum with a self adjusting carb. Is that not the best news you’ve ever heard? Alright so you might not care, that’s alright.
Another update is that there is a very good chance that all state agencies will be forced to shut down on July 1st until the state government agrees on a budget. Sort of like the federal budget that went down to the wire before it was passed earlier this year. So I get hired onto the state just in time to get let go. That’s kind of out of my control though. I just hope the bureaucrats get their heads out of their butts by then… If not, I’ll just take a long 4th of July vacation.
That’s work, now for my play time. We’ve started baseball. Three games in our record is 2-1. We’ve got a game tomorrow and a tournament this weekend. Actually we have a very busy schedule during June. I’m playing shortstop and having a good time. I feel much more comfortable than I did last year, so I hope my numbers improve. Here’s a few pictures from this past weekend’s double header.


Up to bat…

Isn’t this batting stance a thing of beauty!!!???!!!


Manning the 6 hole…



Here’s a couple of fishing pictures, no big ones to show, we caught a bunch of small northern pike and bass. It was a good time anyways, and a nice evening. Also we worked our way around a tree and caught this pileated woodpecker hanging out in front of its nest.

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