4/23/2010

4/23/2010
This week we have been working in Kansas…doing a landscaping project that mostly involves clearing the Tunnerville Work center of tumbleweeds. There has been some limbing and cutting, but mostly we have been herding tumbleweeds. When I use a pitchfork, I imagine I am a giant eating giant dry Ramen balls using a giant fork. Needless to say my imagination has been running rampant with the tedium. Yesterday Russ found two baby rabbits under some tumbleweeds. The guys wanted to feed them to the snakes they found, but Clay released the rabbits near a den he found.

Yesterday and today, after lunch we loaded up in the trucks and went to a “fire.” There was a private prescribed burn next to the Cimarron land and we were going to go watch the guy light the field on fire. However today it didn’t happen, and yesterday as we were driving to the site there was a brief thunderstorm with hail, which extinguished the fire before we got there. It was almost very exciting.

There have been no tornadoes. However I remain hopeful that we will see one. Not to worry, Mom, there’s a well in the backyard we can jump into if there is one. Just kidding. The forest service guys out here say if there is a tornado they’ll come get us and take us somewhere safe.