Stalling

[Reed]

Started a local (yes, those I dream about - no hours of driving and having the arthritic glue set-in) climbing prune - 15 oaks of the Blackjack variety - easy, soft, sprouts snap clean and light spongy wood. Finished the first one yesterday but the heat beat my butt - loaded up, split, and hit the river half-way through the day.

Today I resolved to get there at sunrise - here I sit typing this. It's already hot out - worse, the roof's dripping dew and steam's rising.

Something's keeping me from going - maybe it's sadomasochism and I want it to get even hotter out? Is it premonition of a hitch loosening off or a rip of tendon from the Silky? Glad I don't have a helper on this one - someone starving to get paid and waiting for me patiently at the job site. Maybe if I did though, I'd be half-done by now, quitting before the sun cooks my thinning dome and bleaches the Stihl orange to white on my bar oil bottles. I'm still here.

I'm not sore or heat-stressed from yesterday, though today I'll probably fry some thinking cells - something else is keeping me here under the ceiling fan - ever get this syndrome? Easy climbing, some audience even, greatful and never seen a climber climb before - still I feel like a wimp for some reason I don't know like writer's block to the poet or something. I need the money, they need not have their prune drawn-out for days on end - something is keeping from that which I live for, whathehell is this?

Does this ever happen to anyone besides me?

(I'll probably finish tying my boots and be gone and workin' soon so everything's moot anyway, but still...here I is asking this)

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Maybe just a little blues-ey today Reed?

I had it last weekJust did not really want to go out. Kinda thinking I'm getting too olad for it. Then after 1/2 hour in a tree I forgot all about it, then remembered and had a good chuckle.

 

[Stumper]

I've been there to. It happens a lot when the days have been long and I'm tired"down deep", but it has happened at times when I had no reason to drag my feet at all. As a saw shop I used to frequent had posted on the wall "Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.".

 

[Mahk]

Originally posted by Stumper
...a saw shop I used to frequent had posted on the wall "Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.".

Words of Langston Hughes.

 

[TREETX]

I too get that feeling when the seasons change. Here in Texas the seasons are changing. We only have 4 seasons - Fall, Spring, Summer, and the 7th Circle of Hell.

Summer is leaving and the heat is setting in

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Originally posted by TREETX
I too get that feeling when the seasons change. Here in Texas the seasons are changing. We only have 4 seasons - Fall, Spring, Summer, and the 7th Circle of Hell.

Summer is leaving and the heat is setting in

Sure glad Fl. ain't like that; sun sure can be a competitor i h'ear! Tuning with nature, gravity etc., seems ya have to allow for the swells between phases allowing your aquaeous vessel to adjust, as any other two thinly seperated atmospheres as one changes. Specially whenst ya get elder, as thee!!!

In high school i quipped that part of wisdom might be pattern finding with familiarity of age, and sensing things pressing in more as less lifeforce constantly screamed out of you in trade of that balance, finding some weakness replaced by strength of proper direction and focus, if ya lent yourself to it. Maybe ya had less, but knew where to put it i'd say, to make up for it, as i saw some old men not waste any of their gait. But as usual, was teld i was wrong, should always think i would be young and strong, why did i worry of such things? But i could see that an elder directing a young body, could palce maximum force, to (i'd say /name pressure point then as in a martial art) a leveraged point, for maximum output. Guiding when to wage war, and when to finesse, sometimes stepping in and with lightness do what 2 or 3 couldn't!

:alien:

 

[Reed]

Yeah, thanks Jim B.

I eventually went, unlike today...eventually quit. There was
a reason.

 

[Rob Murphy]

Oakwilt
Sometimes I really wonder ..how I keep from going under.( lines from a some song I think)
Seems that we all need ( most of us are like the rest of us) to live for somethin greater than our selves. In Proverbs 29:18 it says "without a vision the people perish".
Visions can be many and varied and times come when we need to RE- Vision.
Of course I recommend the greatest vision of all.....the Cause of Christ!!!
" I Lift up my eyes to the hills- where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2.

On another note ...just to cheer you up I met a guy recently who had a chainsaw go through his 18" Vemeer Chipper. He said when the sparks from the motor grinding on the kives ignited the fuel the chipper exploded like a bazooka ....into the back of his truck..

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Wish i said that!