Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.
Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Four roads out. Three of them dirt. The sap lines are coiled in the sugarbush until February. The ballfield's gone under leaves. After that, it's us.
It was Friday, October 2nd. It was thirty-four at dawn in Camp Puppy Haven, woodsmoke sitting low. We were working the day watch out of Leaf Drift Detail. My partner's Doris. The boss is Captain Dot. My name's Puppy.
A woman checked the foliage map on her phone three times before breakfast. The maple in her own yard turned Tuesday. Doris had already filed it.
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