What a nice and relaxing day.
We started off going to some old burn units (Cane Ridge and
King/Miller), which some of our fellow Emergency Response Members helped set
off. We landed the easy task of going
around the 2500 acres and collecting the flagging that was left behind. Danny, our contact for the day, respected me
as the Team Leader in Training and treated me as an equal… even after I
temporarily got my team lost. We ended
up taking a detour that led us to a farm where we saw some baby pigs so it
wasn’t a complete loss! Anyhow, we kept
in contact via radio and I think my etiquette was pretty good aside from
accidentally saying “cool” once and not copying another transmission. Still, we split up and finished the task just
in time for lunch.
The second half of our day consisted of us heading over to the
Watercrest campground and clearing the lawns of debris so that they could be
mowed. To accomplish this, I had our
crew of 6 line up on one side of the grounds and we gridded our way to the
other. Gridding is sooo much easier when
you can actually see where you are going!
My team performed amazingly and when we were done the area looked like
something straight out of a fairy-tale: lush green fields polka dotted with
flowers next to a gently rolling river.
We are in the
process of gathering to watch Gladiator, which just happens to be one of my
favorite movies. “What we do here echoes
in eternity…” that may be paraphrased as it has been way too long since I last
saw this film. I like the quote though
and would like to think that those of us in AmeriCorps are doing things that
will leave some awesome echoes. Catch you all later!
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