All the Work and Half of the Credit

We spent the next bunch of hours looking for fallen trees the right size…

… and pulling them all into a pile…

… and laying them out in rows…

… and getting crosspieces…

… and tying them together with knots that Pittman and Fish showed us…

… until it actually started to look like a couple of real live rafts.

And when I say “we,” I mean everyone but Carmen. She spent most of her time telling me what to do, and what not to do, and looking busy whenever Pittman and Fish came around to inspect the rafts. All I know is, I never stopped moving.