New Job Site 
Friday, November 3, 2006, 07:10 PM - Work
Today we spent the day moving the last three machines (the yarder, delimber, and loader) to the next job site. It is part of the same job, but it's about 2 miles from where we were. Yesterday, one of the guys spent the day walking the clipper throught the 'goat trail' we drive through every morning (its just wide enough in parts for the pickups) and he made the road wide enough for the 12 foot tracks of the yarder. The road was really rocky and we had to park one of the pickups at the end of it to prevent any hunters from meeting us on the road and freaking out. (hunting season started Oct. 22 here)
Everything went smoothly and we're all ready to start hooking on Monday. :)

-Miranda

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Pitch 
Saturday, October 28, 2006, 07:38 PM - Friends/Family
Today Joe and I went for a short bike ride. Afterwards Pat and Nancy taught us how to play Pitch. It was a fun card game once we figured out what we were doing. It's a team game. I was on Nancy's team. We won two of the three games. :)

-Miranda

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Scenery Pictures 
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 06:12 PM - Work
The site we're working on right now is called Bitterroot View. It has a beautiful view of Bitterroot Lake. Many mornings there is fog covering the lake that eventually burns away (when it's a nice day). Yesterday morning there was about an inch of snow on the ground, but that melted by lunch time.
This week has been easy for me. I've been keeping up and even though there was a problem with the delimber that Pat and I had to fix for about an hour, I still mostly caught up in the hour before quiting time. Joe has been home all week working on his project and doing some Rangenet work. He'll probably come to work next week to help us move to the second part of the job we're on.

-Miranda


Joe, Tom, and Jesse eating lunch by the yarder and a fire that Joe built.

Bitterroot Lake.

Look at the cool cloud inversion.

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This Week 
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 07:28 PM - Work
Well, I've basically been keeping up. I stayed late one day last week, but Pat has to load trucks early in the morning so he has time to work on my piles of logs before we (the crew) get there. This week has been going fairly well. I keep learning new things and how best to deal with other things.
-Miranda

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The Cows 
Monday, October 16, 2006, 05:50 PM - Friends/Family
The Hanley's have two cows. It was really nice out on Saturday so I went out with my camera to find them and get some pictures. Once they saw me out there they came right up to me then started following me when I was leaving. Before I started the logging I fed the cows in the evening for Pat. They really like their apples so they were hoping I would give them some (they each got two :) ).

-Miranda


The red cow coming through the trees to check me out.

The black cow.

They tried not to look like they were obviously following me at first.

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