It's been a very busy week in the woods of East Alabama. No rain, blue skies, and beautiful Fall weather aligned for plenty of field work for this forester.
I'm grateful for the work, but after about three straight days of plowing through brush, vines, and briers, an aging forester's legs begin to tire and his feet get heavy.
By Thursday, I began to trip and fall some. Fell down probably four or five times in two days. A couple of these falls were real face-planting nose-in-the-dirt masterpieces. If I was in film, I thing I might be nominated for an Academy Award-- "best fall in a woodland setting." I should at least be considered for a Golden Globe.
Here's an interesting bit of trivia for those of you who are interested in the quirks of human behavior. A man working alone in the woods who falls down will always quickly look around to see if anyone saw him fall. It must be in our DNA.
There are many mysteries in life--questions that have been pondered for ages:
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?"
"If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make any sound?"
I don't know the answers to these mysteries. But I do know that if a forester falls in the woods and nobody is around, he does make a sound. Usually something like "ooof."
The initial "ooof" may or may not be followed by other sounds that shall not be addressed in a family blog.
Use your imagination.
Best fall in a woodland setting. I like that.
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Go forth and watch yourself, young fellow.