Raspberries - day 2

This morning I needed to be a "Dumpster Diva" for the Lions Club White Elephant Sale that is next Saturday.  So I called some friends to go with Case with buckets in hand.  He came home with over 6 cups and about 3 more cups transported in his stomach I imagine.  Friends went home with lots, too.  All this happened before a nasty thunderstorm with 90 minutes plus of continuous rolling thunder and 4 hours without power.  As we were eating our way through Schwan ice cream cones in the freezer, the power came back on - just in time to go to the World Lumberjack Championship held in Hayward each year.  Yes, there is a professional lumberjack circuit just like pro cowboys in the rodeo and drivers in NASCAR.  One of my new friends has a daughter who is a Lumberjill on the pro circuit.  Her specialty is Underhand Block Chop.  You stand on a 12 inch diameter log and with an axe chop it between your feet until it is in two pieces.  She broke her own world record of 28.19 seconds.  Other events were the 90 foot pole climb and descent, two-person saw, log rolling, springboard - which has to be seen to be believed, team relay, and "hot saw" which is slicing through a log three times with a tricked out chainsaw.  It was a fun Saturday night in the Northwoods!