DAY 67

DAY 67
06.10.07
TREE 73

I was lucky to be invited to Norman’s parents’ place again for their family’s weekly Sunday meal. The food was great, the water nice, and the company good. I even got to play a couple games of euchre. After the game Norm was going to walk home through the woods so I joined him to find a tree. After we had walked along the edge of the lake for most of the path, Norman pointed out this old craggy tree with large branches, some dying, with a duck box on the trunk. He said he had always thought that would be a good tree to climb. So he headed on and I headed up. The beginning climb was pretty standard, easy with low branches, but they were big around and harder to hold. I got to about up as high as I could by the trunk and after looking around, determined to head out on one of its large sprawling limbs. I transferred down a limb to even further out and was a little scared without much to hold onto. I tied my tag and then looked over at Norman’s house. I could see him in his garden and yelled his name. He didn’t hear me so I just sat a little longer enjoying my vantage point over the beautiful surroundings. My climb down was pretty scary. I decided to stay on that lower branch which took a lot of thigh squeezing and belly scooting. But I made it down. Another good challenging climb.