why is it so hard to learn from our lessons? i'm not sure. but i feel like i've been repeating the same mistakes since i was like 19. it's silly. for instance. i re-remembered today as i was re-shoveling gravel down our atv-trail that i hate big machinery.
the short story: andy hand-dug an atv-trail this summer (so we could drive down to the house) and then, a few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to use free gravel for a car pull-off spot on top of the road. free gravel! place to park! these are positive improvements. and the pull-off turned out great, but it also made the atv-trail steeper. so then - and this is where things start to get messy - we had a friend come with his little bob-cat to try to even-out the grade of the trail. we wanted to get it done before the snow really started to fall. it was night. it was raining. the bob-cat got stuck. and now, everything is torn to shit. today, after work, we were back at square one: hand-digging our atv-trail to make everything ok again.
the sad part is that i learned this from my father, long ago, when the woods at the farm got hacked to pieces when it was logged, in october. so here it is, october, ten years later, our own land, and we're trying to rush shit with big machinery, but in the process, making things worse.
dad would say, "things grow back."
thank god for that.
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ouch. sorry about the "torn to shit" trail. things will grow back. i never seem to learn either. this weekend I got a little to over-zealous with the handsaw. "I needed more sun light for my veggie garden!" I exclaimed as matt gave me that look as he glanced nervously at the large pile of branches i was accumulating. oops. i guess some of us to learn the hard way....more than once.
ouch. sorry about the "torn to shit" trail. things will grow back. i never seem to learn either. this weekend I got a little to over-zealous with the handsaw. "I needed more sun light for my veggie garden!" I exclaimed as matt gave me that look as he glanced nervously at the large pile of branches i was accumulating. oops. i guess some of us to learn the hard way....more than once.
hey guys! awesome to hear what you guys are up to. you sound very busy, doing and re-doing! no good...it definately WILL grow back.
funny story about miss louisiana! i am sure you didn't look fat nor wierd next to her! not to mention that you were probably much taller than her! so take that miss louisiana :)
i am hoping to be able to post a picture, if i can't you can see some of our pics at our blogspot : http://bridgetlorentz.blogspot.com/ check it out.
glad to hear things are going well..woudl love to spend more time together, how do we do that? love you guys!!!
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