The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

I woke up this morning with stiff arms. I don't recall having done anything terribly exerting yesterday. I spent most of it either in a car, at a table, or asleep, except for the two hours or so in the morning when I worked on removing blackberry plants in a park in Olympia. I wasn't even yanking them - I pruned off branch after branch after branch, then set them in a wheelbarrow and minced them with a pair of pruners. It didn't even ache at the time.

If I had been Joseph, another boy from the group, then I might have had reason to ache. Joseph didn't seem to have had much experience with w...