Greetings

Welcome to my little corner of the inter-webs! I just wanted to take this space to warn you that my posts will rarely be up to date. Due to the spontaneity of natural disasters and the unpredictability of when AmeriCorps' services will be requested I will be digitizing my journal entries whenever we return to St. Louis. Oh, and most of the pictures you see here were taken by myself. If ever I do use someone else's material I make a point to give them due credit though! That said, come, leave comments and be merry! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Peck Ranch - 2/26

We have teams blue and orange… staying at a research facility… coincidence that these are the very colors that appear when using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device!?  I think not!  GLaDOS is probably housed over in the lab—I mean, our host has never explained what goes on in there… only that we are not allowed in.  Of course human nature is once we are told not to do something we are often times overcome with an urge to do it.  Seeing as how these next couple of days may be our last at Peck Ranch, I don’t see the harm in trying to sneak a peek.  If this turns out to be my last entry assume that curiosity has killed the cat.

Speaking of cats, we saw one the other day.  It was black and white, well groomed, and it did not appear to be having any trouble locating food.  Perhaps it is a researcher’s pet.  We also saw an owl on the way back from our project! 

Anyway, tomorrow we’re going to be performing a prescribed burn at the Thorny Mountain Burn Unit in Peck Ranch.  It is kind of a big deal.  AmeriCorps teams blue and orange are going to be there and we’re even calling in purple to help us and the local MDC staff out.  So long as the wind stays down and the humidity is above 25% everything is a go.  This is one of several fire lines my group has been working on for the past couple of weeks so I’m really hoping the weather cooperates.  It would be like the cherry on top of a very successful month if we could see this particular project through to completion.  Keep your fingers crossed!


In the event that we are burning tomorrow, I think it is best that I turn in for the night.  We work 10 hour days, but depending on the situation fires can take more than that—not usually for prescribed burns, but you never know!  Today we completed our section of a fire line on the Bowman Flatts Burn Unit, the one that required us to move stuff some 40 feet into the unit.  I am having a hard time keeping my eyes open.  Uh, so, yeah, I was heading off to go sleep.  Night all!





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