Nath Jones's Blog - Posts Tagged "tillamook"
Follow through
In 2011 I rented a house on the Oregon coast so I could work on a book in peace. There were walks to take, agates to look for, and driving the winding road to Astoria, of course, too. And there were neighbors.
The neighbors had timber all over their yard. Logs, huge logs, everywhere. I didn't know if it would be polite to ask why on earth they had so much, but by the end of the week the whole story had come out. There was some power line going up somewhere, some kind of right of way that needed to be cleared. This neighbor had made his case and gotten all the wood felled along that way being made.
I don't know how much wood any one person can split. I have no idea. But their whole yard was piled high with huge trees and this man, one man, fully intended to split all the wood so he could divvy it up for the neighborhood.
I hope he did. Just now I ran across a little notecard with his wife's email address on it, thought I'd better send her a message to say hello.
The neighbors had timber all over their yard. Logs, huge logs, everywhere. I didn't know if it would be polite to ask why on earth they had so much, but by the end of the week the whole story had come out. There was some power line going up somewhere, some kind of right of way that needed to be cleared. This neighbor had made his case and gotten all the wood felled along that way being made.
I don't know how much wood any one person can split. I have no idea. But their whole yard was piled high with huge trees and this man, one man, fully intended to split all the wood so he could divvy it up for the neighborhood.
I hope he did. Just now I ran across a little notecard with his wife's email address on it, thought I'd better send her a message to say hello.
