03 Cristina's B&B - Working in The Woods - Introduction

Postby Emilio Sognatore » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:39 am

Hi Folks!

I must apologize with you, but in this "Crazy Italian Summer", full of rainstorms and, as usual for me, full of my everytime-suffocating work ...
... there's no much free-time to write on the PC. :(

Neverthless, things continue to happen!
Just yesterday, Cristina told me about some damages caused by a big rainstorm that hit her zone and if this time her B&B was safe, not the same occurred to the surroundings and she and all the rest of the "Tribe", had to go to spend some days working to eliminate a potentially dangerous situation that had been created in a mountain stream near her Court.
In particular when she explained to me that, after the bigger part of the work had been done ... "things" began to "tangle-up a little" ...
... we both laughed a lot ... especially, when she told me what happened in the last two working-days, up, in the forest.

I think that probably is better to write a "fictional" story about this...
... but in the meantime, wishing not to anticipate to you to much ... I can't hide to you that, at this point, you can easily imagine what could happen sending to work in the deep of mountain forest a group of girls and boys that is not "entirely foreign to the idea of tying or being tied" ...
... work was done!
... but also other activities have been done! ;)

By the way ...
This is not an insulated episode...
... when Cristina (me) and her friends are involved ...
... tie-up games can spring-out every moment. :P

Have a nice evening!
:)
Emilio

Re: 03 Cristina's B&B - Working in The Woods - Introduction

Postby Emilio Sognatore » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:10 am

Hi folks!!! :)

Cristina have just told me that, in this period ...
... where she lives, in the Appennine Mountains, between Northern and Central Italy ...
... the weater is crazy in this crazy summer.
It rains everyday and, to be at the end of July... it's cold!!!

The vegetables in the garden are suffering and Cristina is fearing of not be able to have some ripe tomatoes ... not to mention pumpkins and zucchinis.

At the end of june a big rainstorm/windstorm hit the mountain near Cristina's B&B and caused some damages into the sorrounding woods and above all some big trees collapsed into the mountain stream that passes near her house.
People who live in towns do not realize the enormous amount of daily works required to mantain woods and mountains and to avoid damages.
Without men intervention mountains and woods quickly become wild and dangerous.
Kepping it short... whitout the intervention of mountain people the mountains and their woods are not so wonderful as you know them, places full of charm and wonder, but inescapably they will become a tangle of brambles and dead plants ready to collapse under the impetus of the rains.

Usually the maintenance of the woods (and the tree cutting to have the wood to heat the houses) is made between the end of autumn and the beginning of springtime but when there are some wheater dammage, like at the end of june, people have to make extra maintenance.

Returning to Cristina, she and a little group of her firends, gone to the woods above all in order to eliminate some trees that collapsed into the stream.
With the aid of two skilled mountaners, a pair of old men, skilled lumberjacks, and with the help of the winch of an all terrain truck ( a well worn, former US Army, GMC CCKW truck, a true WWII veteran used as a "jack of all trade" by one of the two Old Men - who is also a skilled mason), also the biggest trunks was removed and the water of the strema now is free to run without disturbance from this obstacles without to cause damages in the surroundings or, as happened last september, without to flood Cristina's Houses.

After two hard days work, it reamains only details (removal of small branches and cleaning of some minor draining ditches) and in the middle of the third day ...
... despite the exhaustion of all ...
... some of Cristina's friends began to had some kinky ideas in their mind ;)

I had to apologize for my very poor English.
I've just wrote this part in a hurry and without take care of the Language.
I hope you will understand the meaning of the story and I hope also that you will not get angry too much to have to wait a little more to read about actual tie-up-action :P

Have a nice evening!
:)

Emilio
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Re: 03 Cristina's B&B - Working in The Woods - Introduction

Postby Stephen_kidnapper » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:26 am

Nice, Emilio :-)