Sound-off Saturday...
You know what makes me mad? Land that doesn't perc. I went a-tree planting with the CBF today, and this is how it went.
1. Remove tree from pot.
2. Stick tree in pre-drilled hole.
3. Pack dirt down around it, add any necessary tree protection, and move on to the next hole.
At my third tree, this is how it went:
1. Arrive at hole.
2. Take note of disturbingly saturated ground.
3. Stick tree in hole.
4. Attempt to pack in tree with globs of mud.
5. Step around around tree to pack in mud.
6. Plunge leg a foot into the ground.
7. Get stuck there.
Alright. I'm glad for the trees. I really am. But can't they just dig a trench to the stream that was, like, FIVE FEET away from the area in which I got stuck? College Park is like this, too. Every time it rains the grassy area outside Centreville enclosed in stone is like Niagara-freaking-Falls. Rain boots will not save you.
Alright, so this was utterly pointless and a bit whiny, but I just needed to express my irritation at oceans that exist above sea level.
Thanks!
1 comment:
I've never understood what sea level had to do with anything anyway, but maybe that's cuz I skipped Earth science. :P And yes, if I got stuck with my leg a foot into muddy dirt, I would be quite irritated too.
But, more importantly, where'd ya go? Granted I didn't even discover you had a blog till today when I went to your fb page (I was scanning the "recently updated" list and was drawn in by your wonderfully negative status, lol), but you updated pretty steadily, then nothing. It is, of course, also break (at least for me), so perhaps since you no longer need to procrastinate your school work by blogging, you have lost interest. But hopefully you will soon rediscover the joy of writing down all that annoys you in the world so that I can make reading your blog my new form of procrastination (fb is getting kinda boring :P).
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