Chapter 15The weather was beginning to change, and that reminded Daniel we’d be working round the calendar getting ready for the winter when we couldn’t log. At the altitude we was cutting, there was about twelve weeks the trucks and equipment couldn’t get in because of bad weather, so Ponderosa would work us straight through without a week off until we banked enough logs to carry the mill over the winter. This usually racked up enough hours so the crews had a steady paycheck through the bad weather when they couldn’t work.
Daniel and me went out of town on a trip for the rest of the week so we wouldn’t have to put up with the women. We drove over to one of the last powwows of the season a couple of states over and had a great time. We did whatever we wanted to, and didn’t do one damned t
