Struggling

Its finally here...the struggle to keep doing this. I don't know what to say or talk about. I haven't been keeping a journal this year and I miss talking to my leather bound friend every night. Put my troubles down on paper in front of me and see the memories I've had throughout the week. I'm not even writing letters this year either. I couldn't give a real reason I'm not. It's not like what I'm doing is overly exhausting. I'm going to bed early. I don't know what's wrong with me.
It's been so long I don't know where to begin...I don't want to talk about what's been going on in the office and the only memorable work we've done was doing stream stablization for Fish and Wildlife. It was a new idea for them, but something I had already done before with the Park Service. To keep the bank from getting eroded, one section we added dirt and planted willow, the second side was the part that was a repeat for me. What we did was dug out our bank then filled it with 3 foot tree rounds. After that we put in Willow and covered them with dirt and then repeated the process until it was at the level of rest of the bank. The hope is for the rounds to break down or suuport the Willow to grow along the bank. The rounds were either Alder (Nitrogen fixing) or Cottonwood.
So it started snowing again on Fridaty. Out at the EVC we had about a foot of snow. I really enjoy sleeping in my new dry tent and hearing the snow or rain on the rain fly. I also got a new sleeping bag so I've been nice and toasty!

Low Ropes

No questions this week! So another week has come and gone. There's still a foot of snow out by our tents, and our tents only. Everywhere else in Juneau the snow has melted. I guess that isn't true anymore since its actually snowing right now. I can't think of anything exciting at the beginning of the week, it was just training the jerks. Carrie's little brother is the best jerk I've ever seen. Yesterday was the low ropes course for the staff, field supports, and the crew leaders. We played a lot of awesome games. My favorite was the tank game. One person was blind folded (the tank), another person had their back to the "tank" and shouted out commands, the last person points to the commander to tell them what to shout. Carrie's little brother made me laugh so hard he couldn't hear the instructions that were being shouted to him. Then when I was the tank I went down to pick up the ball and Mark stole it from me and so I grabbed his leg to keep him from going away. We ended up having a wrestling match in the snow blindfolded until he pegged me in the head. That was my favorite memory from the day. The last bit was pretty memorable, too. We did one of those human pretzel things and I spent 30 minutes staring at Rob's butt. That was pretty great, it apparently touched my mustache (Carrie's little brother is narrating). Last night was first Friday and I got to hang out with Megs and John, which really made my night. That's pretty much it, until next week!