Dash is coming down! Oh boy. To look at the rhodies. I need to go out and take some more pictures. But I thought I would say hello.
125.00 for a haircut?
125.00 for a haircut?
You know what I like about between here and Dash's house? You cross the Skookumchuck River.
Really.
The Skookumchuck.
It's good sized river. I feel good every time I go over it. I just like it.
"Oh! The Skookumchuck!"
There is a company in a town near there, that makes logging equipment. These very macho things called "yarders." A yarder is like a pole, about 5 or 6 or 7 stories tall, with a dozen cables attached to it, that is used to drag sections of logs through the woods to the yard, where they load them on LOG trucks. Drag them right up a cliff, lickety split, if they want to. It's steel, extendable, guy-wired, and connected to a super-powerful winching motor. This is a sort of modern replacement for "highline" logging, where they topped the tallest tree, a "Topper" did, and then ran cables to other mountains or giant trees and dragged the logs along the overhead cables. People get killed, doing that, every few nanoseconds.
Two inch thick cables, a mile or two long, snap, and give everyone a 125.00 haircut.
A hundred and twenty five dollar haircut?
But the neat thing is, the yarders these guys make are displayed, fully upright, even "erect" one might say, extended way into the sky, along the road to Dash's house, by the Skookumchuck River. And the company is called, SKOOKUMCHUCK.
And so there are the tower poles, all in a row, giants of the logging industry, and along the poles it's painted in bright letters:
S
K
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K
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M
C
H
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K
Like that.
Neat, huh?
It takes a while to figure out what the heck they say, except for people who know.
Skookumchuck.
The machine shop I used to work in made some parts for Skookumchuck. The first time I heard the guys saying that, I thought they were joking.
"There's really a Skookumchuck Logging Machinery Corporation? 'Cause I'm not addresssing this crate until I see a work order."
"Oh yah. Skookumchuck. Big Boys."
Nobody knows what Skookumchuck means. Which is just as well, because I think it means "I like to kiss boys in the woods." |
