The logging industry is very important in society today; not just for lumber and building houses but for firewood as well.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Accomplishment


Accomplishment
According to Webster’s dictionary, accomplishment is defined as the successful completion or achievement of a given goal. When first starting out in the spring time, getting ready for the winter is a crucial time. It is like these blogs we are writing; you start working on the paved road and doing great, but before you know it; the pavement is gone and the road starts to get bumpier and bumpier. Trying to fit the how’s and why’s are hard enough, but I personally did not think that I would have gotten this far if it was not for the sense of accomplishment.
The feeling of accomplishment is great. Just like setting goals to finish all the procedures with firewood needed so a family can be warm at night. Having finished a few minutes faster than you have before with the same job that you have done over and over again feels great. An individual which comes up and says, “hey great job today” feels great. Which this same individual you have disliked for a while now and feeling bad.
Knowing if something gets changed and you had a part of that, it makes you feel good. For example, a stack of wood is leaning to one side and you change it up with placing supports on that side. Many different ways which to carry wood and coming up with the fastest method possible to get chunks of wood from point A to point B. Splitting certain wood a certain way can speed up the process to feel the sense of accomplishment. These are just some facts to which a sense of accomplishment arises.

3 comments:

Craig said...

Heath
Understand Accomplishment is hard to describe in the way you wanted but you got the point through. looks okay just try to get more info in if possible, possibly another sub-category.

Karst said...

I like this post alot, and can testify this is very true. I logged my Uncles property in Idaho for a couple of summer, and built fuel stands and other various things with the lumber (alot of post-holes).

Criag says it sometimes hard to understand. I think this post is really for a certain type of person, that type of person that has been here and experienced this certain distinguished type of accomplishment. I think newspapers write they way the do because they need the whole public be able to be interested, yet blogs can be directed for only a certain person to understand and thats what I like about it!

Julie P.Q. said...

So do you have firewood at your home here? Do you go through the same sorts of processes? And that was an interesting comparison to blogs...so why was the road smooth in the beginning and rougher now?