It gives me, like, a good feeling. Feel more free, kinda. Jason, also 17, had worked on the land last year. Now I see that it did make a difference. He doesn't like being out there, though, preferring the city.
Nature needs a lot of help.
The rest of the boys are clumped together around the new fence post, taking turns with the tamper bar to pack the soil as hard as it had been before the post-hole digger penetrated the ground. One boy suggests they make sure it is absolutely level. Bennett walks to the back of the pickup truck to hand him a T-level. The kids are intrigued. For Rick Bennett, too, this work is a healing.