Hey all. I'm back in STL for the weekend. Yeah. I mean it, because I sleep in my bed here 4-6 nights a month. Not nearly enough to justify paying rent. I left Mt. Vernon MO last week ("Home of the "Mountaineers" which funnily enough was "Mountainqueers" on Wikipedia up until last week. I'm not sure how good their high-school athletics are though.). I left with a bang, literally. To make a semi-long story short. I was driving a Methodist truck with a trailer and a skid loader on the trailer to work. Not 2 minutes from the church where I was staying and storing the rig, the trailer started to fish-tail half-way down a fairly steep hill. I thought it would steady out but it definitely didn't. It swung more violently with every pass and to avoid hitting a school bus I drove into a ditch totalling the truck. I was and am fine, somehow.
This last week I was at Shaw Nature Reserve cutting down honeysuckle and spraying them with herbicide. It was a really great week. The weather was gorgeous, my crew was good, the accomodations were cozy and we ate well. What more can a man ask for. We were working with one of the volunteer coordinators there named Bob. Bob is kind of a crotchety old man, but we got over our differences and he took us on an amazing hike the last day we were there. It was to date the most beautiful area of MO I've seen. I wish I had a camera with.
Last night found me and my close associates here prowling the best part of St. Louis: the Soulard neighborhood. We visited quite a few bars and danced till late in the night. Very satisfying. I'm not sure what this coming week will bring. Perhaps back to Mt. Vernon or perhaps deployed to an area affected by the weather this weekend. Hope you are well.
Love, Kevin
Saturday, February 24, 2007
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