Knackered

I haven't been this tired in weeks, but it's the good kind of tired. It's the doing my part, changing the world one tree at a time, following the Presidents request that we all get out there and pitch in kind of tired.

Today I helped my roommate's girlfriend (Lisa) plant trees for her research. You may remember a post I had last year about helping insert weird gelatinous water sausages into another planting area, well this is a different plot of land with more traditional techniques. She is testing how well trees can survive when they are planted in different stages (small plug saplings, bare root 2 year old saplings, and the typical 2 year old container plants like you see at the garden store) by volunteers. We had to record how long it took us to plant a certain number of each type. there were about 30 volunteers, and we planted about 270 trees.

Of course Charlie had to choose the steepest slope for my group. Here's Lisa coming up to talk to us:
Yeah, we had to try to dig holes in that slope for about 30 trees, plant them, then climb up and down to place 3 bucket of mulch around each tree. Needless to say, we needed to stand around every once and a while to take a breather. As my team (Charlie and Katie) demonstrate perfectly.


All the same, Lisa seemed pleased with our work, although clearly we had more to do.


To top it off, I decided to ride my bike. It is the first time I was on my bike since some time around October, so it was a bit of a shock. After all that tree planting Charlie and I rode around a bit more to run some errands and grab some lunch. thankfully he was patient with me, because I had to get off and walk up a couple hills. Damn, time to get in shape again.

Now it's 8:30 on a Saturday night and I'm in bed. I have a glass of wine and a stack of library books, so its a quiet night in for me.

Hope everyone is well (hope Malissa is getting well and can join the safari) and having a wonderful weekend.