Tuesday, May 13, 2008

2nd Mountain became a 2nd Home

I do love election day. No school in Hardy County, definitely nice. So what did I do w/ it you may be wondering.

Well it stated by getting up at 8AM and cleaning up to drive to the high school. There i spent 2 hours helping the baseball coach get his field ready for a game today at 3:30. When i got there i started the day by using a sponge and a bucket to clean the puddles off the infield with a few other people. While i was doing this a man came and put 8ft fans from a chicken house on each side of the infield. Now this was something that i never thought i would have seen. Chicken house fans on a baseball field......well now i have...After about an hour of sponging the field dry, i spent the next bunch of time raking the dirt so that more of it had surface that was in contact w/ the air from the fans.

After this fun, I was off to the wonderful land for lovers (aka Virginia) to do some bouldering. I started with a nice little 3 move warm-up problem...and from there moved over to a nice V2. I sent it very easily, in fact i felt it was too easy so i spent the next 45 minutes trying to send it using different hold and eliminating the nice big jugs. Upon trying to do this, it seemed too hard for V2. After finding out what the guide says for that problem i realized it was the easier of the two sets of beta. When i got home i looked at the guide a little closer and it turns out i was trying to do a V8 variation.

I'll skip right the exciting end...i was working a nice V3 sloper problem, and managed to take a chunk of skin out of my one pinky, so that pretty much killed my day. Although i did walk down to start working on this one V5 problem i want to send. When i was looking over the problem i also looked at the top-out just in case i got that far, though i probably wouldn't have. While studying the last moves i saw a bee's nest that was the size of a golf ball, but had a big hole in the bottom and looked like it was old (from last year) then about 10 seconds later a BIG, NASTY, MEAN white-faced hornet flew up to the over sized hole and crawled right on into that nest i thought was dead. When i saw this little fella i grabbed my shit and ran.

Thus ending my day.

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