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Its me again, that tall dark handsome drink of water. Well I see I haven’t been that good of a blogger as I have not blogged about anything and just watched my blog appreciate in value. Cash rules everything around me, cream, get da money, dolla dolla bill yall. Pay me for this.

A lot has happened but I will keep the format of previous posts to keep me on track, and stuff simple for you.

In 3 weeks of Plant Health Care the only thing I can say that is not even really worth mentioning was that I almost flunked my weed I.D test. My worst mark to date but I believe it had good cause. I climb trees, I don’t piss about with dandy lions. Next order of business please.

Urban Forestry has actually been cool the past couple of weeks. We actually got out and pruned, and for those that had their climbing gear with them, got to climb and prune. Now because it was not my climbing class, I got to use my heathen harness that is frowned upon by my program head. Well I didn’t get to use it, I just used it anyways. We also did a field tree description, in which we had to identify defects in a tree, which was done in the first 20 minutes of class, then 40 minutes of rock throwing followed. Wtf? I also had to hand in a street tree inventory project where I assessed and recorded all city trees on a street. The city of Lindsay has some really weak trees.

Operations has been alright. We had our chain sharpening test right after St. Patty’s day, so half the class was still drunk and the other half hungover. I was between the two. My teacher was cool about it though, and let us out early after the test. We also did our WHMIS testing in which I took the time to doodle on the WHMIS handout that was given to us. These are all things I am very proficient in, so my attention slips from time to time. I’m not just a jack ass.

Climbing is awesome. Now that we are in advanced we are not only off the crappy basic system and climbing on our own, we are actually pruning and rigging branches for removal on the streets of Lindsay. We now climb on an open Blake hitch system, which is an upgrade but still no eye-to-eye split tail 4/1 swabisch system. I killed the ascent test in 10 minutes, and ended up with 23/25. I lost two marks trying to do the Big Shot portion of the test. A Big Shot is a giant sling shot used to shoot a throw ball into the tree and I suck at it. I just don’t use it because its not practical for where I work… That and I don’t trust myself shooting a giant sling shot, too much fun could be had. Because I was in the top 10 marks of the class I get to participate in the FTCC (Fleming Tree Climbing Competition) on April 17th, here at the college. Come out and support if you can. If I do well in it, I may enter into the OTCC (Ontario Tree Climbing Competition) in Hamilton in the fall.

Overall my academics are some of the best I’ve ever had. Id say I’m sitting in around an 80+ average.

Work for me is looking good. The job I interviewed for out in BC, I got, so I’m heading out their for the summer to work. Its going to be awesome but I’m going to miss my friends a whole lot and I know I’m going to miss out on some good times. Work has been awesome, boss hog has had me up in the trees putting in work, and because he hasn’t picked my work apart, I must be doing an alright job cause he keeps putting me up in the trees.
I also had to interview for another job with a company out of Halton Hills for marks. They were chapped that I was heading out to BC, but told me that they want me when I come back.

Personal Life has been pretty weak. March is never a good month for me. Gotta keep moving though with my head up.

I added some links to the side bar. Links include places where I buy my equipment, industry information and certifications, and where I work now and will be working in the summer.

Cheers,

Ross

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P.S I have a small video of me foot locking. I need to tinker around with the word press features but I will get it up.