Tonka Tilt

If you've noticed an unfamiliar wobble in the ground beneath your feet  recently it's because folks in this neck of the woods have been working hard to shift the Earth's mass from one place to another.

For the past few weeks flat bed tractor trailers carrying boulders capable of filling entire rooms have been steadily traversing the local four lane highway.

The work that has obviously gone into this massive relocation of stone has had me thinking back to childhood days when the neighborhood kids regularly dispatched a fleet of Tonka trucks to reshape the geography of designated areas in our back yards.

Cubic feet of soil was regularly moved to create both caverns and mountains that became scenes of battles and mudslides.

Had we realized then that we were actually developing professional skills, we might all have gone on to be the most highly demanded excavation team the world has ever known.

There's something about the thought of working amidst dump trucks, backhoes, cranes, and bulldozers in an effort to coax mother earth into cooperation that remains attractive even to this day.