Look Out Labor Force, Here I Come!

Well.....

I believe today is the 25th day of year 24. I really can't remember anymore, so I hope I'm getting it correctly. It is quite possible that in a few more weeks I'll be proudly announcing that it is day 416 of year 24 and I won't know what is wrong.

Events of today include getting a job. Rather, a job getting me. There is this guy in our church who owns a company called Alberta Arborists and he needed a guy to work for the next two weeks. I happen to have the next two weeks free, so thought it might be fun. I have done three seasons of tree work before, so at least I am familiar with it. Although, I do not know if I will be familiar with what will happen tomorrow. I asked Craig (owner) who I would be a groundsman for and he said that now they don't send out two people work crews, but they send out one big 5-6 man work crew to do a big job. They do in one day what would normally that 2-3 days of a two man crew. So tomorrow I may get to see the famous lift-truck at work and dodge large chunks of wood falling at me from the sky!

But I do get to chuck stuff in the chipper, which is always fun.... until it's willows and I get the skin whipped off my arms.

Seeing as I haven't done any labour work for a lot of years tomorrow should also be interesting. I'm praying my back will be able to hold out and I won't have parts of my body going mysteriously numb as usually happens when I do any sort of work with my back. Ahhhh the joy of car accidents... try not to get in them. They inconvenience your entire life afterwards.

But in an effort not to have entire parts of my body go numb my dad and I went out and got some nice new works boots. Now I'm about three inches taller then usual and it is really funny. I'm sure I will get teased tomorrow showing up with gleeming new everything, ready for work. I may just roll around in the dirt for a while tonight to look the part.

I'm thinking I should start a lottery. People can bet on which body part will go numb from day to day. It will be like the roulette wheel at the casino. You can pick from right leg (highest probability), left leg, right arm, left arm, entire left side (often, but not as common), entire right side (usually only when driving long distances, so not high odds), or you can put all your money and prayers that tomorrow my back will finally be healed and I will live the rest of my life with no pain (casino owner greatly encourages this avenue, even though it will put said gambling establishment out of business... hahaha).

Yeah.... maybe I'm a little sick thinking that way. But I do expect to be healed. That was one of my new years goals I set. To pursue the healing of my back and not let up until I see it happen.

So tomorrow the test will start. And it's only two weeks, so hopefully I'll be able to maintain myself for that long.

Tonight I'm going to go clomp around in my new giant boots for a while and hopefully break them in a bit. Maybe call Aaron up to play a game of "Settlers of Catan" which is the best board game I have played in a long, long time... maybe even better then the game of Life! Shocking, I know.

Now...... let me find a picture to post....

Found one. This is a picture I took of our beautiful lake this past fall. I kind of like it. Hope you do too!