I love free internet!

Our new laundromat has wireless internet.  I'm in love.  Laundry is no longer an hour or two of wasted time, we can get things accomplished while we get clean.  Which is currently what I'm doing in preparation for my weekend away.  I'm headed to Conway, AR to see Leigh this weekend, and to say I'm excited is an understatement.  I'm ready for a weekend away from work and the team, so this couldn't come at a better time.

Work this week has been varied, but I feel like we're actually doing useful things to help the Forest Service so I'm happy.  Monday I felled two trees!  One of them didn't go exactly where I wanted it to go, so that was a bit scary, but I felt pretty accomplished when they were down.  Tuesday and Wednesday we did some aerial photo archiving with the Forest Service archaeologist.  And today and tomorrow 5 of us are working with Eric, the Forest timber guy preparing for a lumber sale.

We had two truckloads of big aerial photos of the forest.

We worked in the office basement, and boy, it got dusty down there.

Our finished product.  The photos are no longer in a work center shed, but instead they are organized and laid out nicely in the basement.

After two days we got a little crazy and started hanging from the rafters though.

Today we marked a boundary for a timber sale.  The forest sells lumber to make money, so we helped out a bit.

We followed the laid out pink ribbons and painted the trees on the boundary with bright orange paint.

Max and I.

I was in charge of scouting out the ribbons out in front.

And this is what has been getting us through the weeks.  Starbucks iced coffee packets!  So tasty.  Except I just broke my cup :(  I'll have to look for a new one in Little Rock this weekend!