Over a year ago I spoke to the Park Department, here in Bend, Oregon, about converting a cow pasture across the street from my house into a park. They were already considering purchasing it, but I was the only one of the public who showed up for the decision. I spoke for three minutes, and they thought for another five minutes and then spent seven hundred thousand dollars. I tell my friends that my time is now worth over two hundred thousand dollars a minute. They look skeptical! Anyway, things are now progressing, as will be seen in these pictures.
This shovel does more than I do with my hand shovel.
This roller flattens more than I can flatten with my shoes.
This jackhammer is the biggest I’ve ever seen and the noisiest.
This was the view out my bedroom window one morning.
All of these join together at the crack of dawn and cooperate in making noise.
These guys are having big boy fun digging a ditch in my front yard.
Here’s the view from the east end of my city block at 12:39 noon.
Here the same view four hours later at 4:43 this afternoon.
There was a major forest fire at Mt. Jefferson, which is seventy miles northwest of here. The fire hazard here in Bend is critical because things have been hot and dry for weeks and to make it worse there is a high wind. If a fire starts locally we are in big trouble! I spent several hours trying to make my house more fire-resistant by clearing everything burnable away to the fences!
Fortunately, the park across the street is now totally fresh dirt, except for the Ponderosa trees. An acquaintance of mine moved to Bend, after his home in Paradise, California, burned last summer. He likes it here because it’s just like Paradise.
The park will be finished in a couple of months and will be named Goodrich Pasture Park. There are local parties already planned for there. It will be nice!
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