The one thing about being sick, is that you move . . . so . . . much . . . slower . . .
And that doesn’t work around here.
So yesterday, after waiting an hour for the internet guys to show, only to find out they had the wrong info and couldn’t hook us up yet, I finally managed to get back into the woods around 2:30. I had already moved all 3 of our 275 gallon containers back there, now I just had to finish placing buckets at trees.
It was windy, and cold and 12*, but I was wrapped-up pretty good so it didn’t bother me. But my cold virus finally caught up with me! After I had whipped out 20 buckets and found each a tree home, it hit me hard.
I was whooped. I tried to will myself to keep going, maybe even finish that road. But I couldn’t move another inch, and collapsed onto the road behind the side by side, half asleep.
I had been working enough that my excess body heat was keeping me nice and warm, but not so much that I was sweating. I lay there, half asleep, trying to convince myself to get up and go back to work, but my mind kept getting distracted by various dreams popping-up.
I don’t know how long I slept as my phone doesn’t work in cold weather, even inside my jacket, but judging by the sun it was nearing 4pm. I probably would have rolled over and slept longer had I not heard a suspicious creaking noise.
I cracked an eye open and glanced at the side by side. I hadn’t put the emergency brake on . . . it was sitting on a slight hill . . . and I was laying directly behind it!
I decided it might be in my best interest to get up! Besides, if it was 4pm, I still had to get home, take some Vitamin C, have some coffee and get back out to feed the animals and make dinner!
But alas, sap will begin to flow this weekend, and I don’t have any trees tapped, nor my buckets all placed! I’m kinda stuck on this one . . . today HAD to be tapping day as Saturday we are running to the Maple Warehouse (yea!), and I KINDA wanted to go see the PBR rodeo too (sigh. probably will be working instead).
Maybe I should tap the buckets that are currently out, so that way SOMETHING can be collecting!
- Why couldn’t I have gotten sick NEXT week, AFTER I tapped everything??