i am very physically tired and sore right now because the last 2 days at my job, i helped split a bunch of firewood from a huge old sugar maple tree that had to be chopped down recently. normally, they split most of their wood manually with an axe, but the maple wood was very stubborn and also some of the logs were so large in diameter that even at just 18 inches long, they required two people's full strength to roll. (so wide that they seemed more like discs than cylinders.) with a rented hydraulic wood splitter, we were able to process the whole pile, but it was quite a marathon getting it all done in time to return the machine. as david said today when i left, "it was epic."
thor, the dog, was very annoyed at being left inside for his own safety during that whole process.
now it's friday evening, and i've got a few days to rest up and work on my own projects, which thankfully currently do not involve much physical exertion. we are also expecting a blizzard here on sunday, but i don't have to be anywhere until tuesday morning, so i hope that if we get snowed in, we can just hunker down and be cozy in our abode.
p.s. andrei made a cake that tastes delicious, but looks like some kind of halloween prank because it has drippy lemon curd frosting that looks like cartoonish slime. they are also blasting power metal while cooking beet soup as i write this.
