Landscapers

It is STILL SNOWING IN PROVO! ALL. THE. TIME. But it's like a tropical island here, now: we're hitting at least 30 degrees everyday!

And so the winter adventures continue. We did, as stated previously, go ice fishing.


Billy drilling with the augger--so crazy and so fun!

The ice was like two feet deep.

We, of course, did not catch anything,but it was sweet to walk around on the lake afterwards. We were just walking on the lake! We could hear these cracking noises the whole time we were out there and it was freaky walking around and seeing cracks deep in the layers of the ice. Nerve wracking! But all was well and we were only a little disgruntled that we didn't catch anything.  

 

School continues. The following pictures are a funny discovery of my life. I've worked in the Grounds Office for almost three years now and I'm always dealing with or delivering these master landscape plans for campus and I never once stopped to notice the meticulous lettering or carefully drawn bushes--becuase I had no idea anyone even cared! 

But apparently, there's a whole landscaping handwriting and drawing technique!

How strange! Half of Billy's homework these days is just drawing pages and pages of these particular letters and strange bushes haha!


Speaking of the crazy landscapers of this world, we went showshoeing with the landscape management club--I was going for the sheer adventure of snowshoeing through the mountains. They were going to discover the world's largest white fir, and oh man, were they excited when they found it! 

That's it in the background, not nearly as large as the Redwoods, obviously, but still pretty impressive. Of course all the landscape boys, especially Billy, were climbing all over it before I could even get my snowshoes off.

It was so funny; when the LS professor finally made it up to the tree he gathered us all around, distributed elk jerky made from elk he had shot himself, demanded we sing "High on the Mountaintop," then lovingly showed us the treasure he'd been collecting on the hike up--white fir tree seeds! "These are so rare, and so hard to find!! I'm going to take these seeds, plant them in my backyard and in seven or eight years, I'm going to chop them down and use them as Christmas trees!" (because why bother trying to outgrow the magnificent species already before our eyes?)

Landscapers. haha.

Of course, all 5 our trucks were stuck when we got back down, so that was another adventure. But we made it.

This weekend, the Carters! Hooray!