Post #27137 by Lake Surfer on Tue, Mar 18, 2003 12:01 PM

So we had some nice temps in the 60's this past weekend, and the wahine and I were out riding bikes on a popular trail near the house. I noticed that the city had done a lot of tree cutting and there were great 5 foot 1 1/2 diameter logs laying about. Real straight too. So I planned a mission to rescue them yesterday night in the fog that rolled in off the lake. I was pleased that my wahine decided to volunteer her help on the liberation of these logs. We parked in a lot nearby and score two logs... they had a lot of frozen water in them. I carried one that was about 120 pounds and she found an easier way by rolling the log the half a block to the car. So we set off the two blocks to get a 6 footer I saw. Score! This one was totally dry and ready to carve. We set about rolling this one along the trail and we were about a block away when a car started up the trail with its brights on. I stopped and heaved the log to the side and we started walking ahead. I've had run ins many times now with the police in city parks while I'm liberating wood... they all end in the cop telling me to leave it there and how I can't take fallen trees from the parks. What's a city boy to do? Well, this cop pulls up and I say "Good evening officer." He said, "Just go ahead and take it... I was laughing at you guys all the way up here!" I asked if someone had called us in... there are homes in the area. He said no... he was just responding to another call. I told him I had spotted the wood the other day and that I am a wood carver. He seemed genuinely interested... "what kind of wood carving?" I said tikis... I think I may have lost him. He said if anyone hasseled us further to tell them that officer so and so said it was alright, then took off. We continued rolling and now I've got some really nice logs drying in the basement...

You lose some, you win some!
You'll probably see those logs here some day soon!

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer on 2003-03-18 12:02 ]