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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 22, 2014

Cape Girardeau - 3/18

It’s been awhile, but I had a dream last night.  I was living in a castle that was being taken over by a vampire.  One after another the castle’s residents were being captured and transformed into his minions until there were only pockets of resistance.  I’m pretty sure I was a knight because I felt an overwhelming sense of guilt when the vampire got ahold of the Queen.  She was strong and resisted the villain’s numerous attempts to subjugate her, so he turned her into stone through an elaborate ritual.  Just before I woke up I was in a room with a handful of other survivors.  Everyone was in a panic because something was pounding on the other side of the barricaded door.

Our project today wasn’t quite as intense.  We went back to the Schriener property and resumed our Bush Honeysuckle hunting.  We’ve easily dealt with more than 2000 of the invasive at this point and there is still no end in sight!  Wes stopped by and was very happy at what we’ve done.  He admitted he thought that we were cutting “Coral Berries” instead of Bush Honeysuckle, but after walking through our path of destruction he was glad that that was not the case.  He surveyed the area before departing and marked 3 final spots on our map—declaring that once we hit those spots this property will be considered done!

We have 2 ½ days left and finishing it is not beyond the realm of possibility…except we got the exciting news that we may be doing a controlled burn this week!  Wes said it would most likely be tomorrow or Thursday so we have to be prepared to leave at a moment’s notice.  So long as there is no Honeysuckle in the unscouted area, I think we have a shot at doing the fire and finishing the property.


I’m heading to bed in case we are called for the fire tomorrow.  Taum Sauk is huge so we will be working extended hours.  Night all.  Wish me luck!



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