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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!

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Cape Girardeau - 3/11

Friends, I believe I am sunburned!  We experienced our first consecutive 70 plus degree day since the summer and it was glorious.  Wes Bucheit, our contact, lead us to a new unit to tackle and surmised that we could knock it out in a day.  The forester who had surveyed the area had only done so from the road looking in… and he missed some… Nah, he missed a lot.  Our crew was ambushed by Bush Honeysuckle moments after we arrived and the attack did not relent.  We ultimately had to retreat because of their sheer numbers, but our counterattack will begin at 800 and we’ll see who gets the last laugh!  We have these really cool sci-fi looking handsaws on our side.  I believe this gives us not only an element of cool but an unbeatable edge over our opponents.  Those sons of bushes won’t know what hit ‘em!

I got to play with the handsaw from the future all day.  It made me very happy.  Despite not finishing the area as our contact had hoped, I feel we got a lot accomplished.  The Honeysuckle hid in dead trees, thick pine groves, and even barricaded itself with brambles, but we all went in after them regardless of the obstacle.  I’d wager this particular project will take two more days.  Wes thought the invasive would just be patchy like it was at our location yesterday, but this unit has carpeted itself with the stuff.  Maybe we’ve found the worst already.  Guess we’ll wait and see!


Good night all.  I hope you’re experiencing as nice of weather as we are!







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