Burnham
Woods walker
A quick story, one I bet many here might see themselves in...
So I'm doing this little bit of rigging to take an almost dead, big and long Doug fir limb off a tree in front of our house...had to rig it because some pretty flowering shrubs and plants are below it. Just a couple of easy throw bag settings, haul up a rigging rope, tie in a running bowline and pull it up snug, and anchor off the letdown side. Reachable with a 16 foot polesaw.
Just as I'm about to start the cut, my neighbor from a couple of properties over, maybe 1/4 of a mile away, walks up my driveway and front yard with a mis-delivered FedEx box I'd been waiting on.
The normal back and forth..."thanks"..."no problem".
Then he looks up at the bowline cinched on the limb I'm obviously fixing to cut..."how the hell did you get that knot on that limb way up there?"
So I show him a mocked up replica on a little tree nearby...three times, per his request. His reaction was as if I'd made gold from lead right there in my front yard
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What we do without even thinking about it, is beyond what most folks can even conceive.
It made me feel a bit special, it sure did...I don't get that much these days, old retired fart that I am.
So I'm doing this little bit of rigging to take an almost dead, big and long Doug fir limb off a tree in front of our house...had to rig it because some pretty flowering shrubs and plants are below it. Just a couple of easy throw bag settings, haul up a rigging rope, tie in a running bowline and pull it up snug, and anchor off the letdown side. Reachable with a 16 foot polesaw.
Just as I'm about to start the cut, my neighbor from a couple of properties over, maybe 1/4 of a mile away, walks up my driveway and front yard with a mis-delivered FedEx box I'd been waiting on.
The normal back and forth..."thanks"..."no problem".
Then he looks up at the bowline cinched on the limb I'm obviously fixing to cut..."how the hell did you get that knot on that limb way up there?"
So I show him a mocked up replica on a little tree nearby...three times, per his request. His reaction was as if I'd made gold from lead right there in my front yard
.What we do without even thinking about it, is beyond what most folks can even conceive.
It made me feel a bit special, it sure did...I don't get that much these days, old retired fart that I am.
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...Jer is one of the luckiest men on the planet, to have you as a partner with enough skookum to see skill, talent, and wisdom on display by your everyday partner. It does not happen all that often, I fear.
