Grandma Sue said we would likely be cleaning up homeless person sites, and sure enough, we were given detailed instructions of what to do should be find "fecal matter" or anything "sharp" like needles. Sigh. While we did find fecal matter (likely animal), we found nothing sharp. Lots of bottles tucked away in the shrubbery, and a partially smoked cigar, but nothing terribly gross. The trail was in pretty good shape, considering how much use it gets.
While it felt good to be picking up trash along the trail, the second part of the project was much more satisfying. The Utah County Fire Department was using chainsaws to cut back brush and dead trees, and we volunteers got to haul the limbs to a wood chipper. It's so satisfying to see a pile of shrubbery reduced to fine plant matter. We could all pull branches and see the wood almost magically disappear, and that was great. We spent about an hour at both parts and came away hot but satisfied with our service.
And Brandt needs only have a board of review, and then he's finished and can receive his advancements at a court of honor next week. Yahoo!
Blythe looks thrilled, doesn't she?
Blythe complained of complete exhaustion until we passed the sprinklers.
Then, miraculously, her energy returned and she was able to move freely again.
She is a blithe spirit!
Brandt chose to only put his shoe clad toes in the water.
The wood chipper was big enough that they fed that whole tree Kent is hauling
right into the hopper, and it ground it up.
Amazing machine and more amazing man hauling huge dead tree!
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