Ok campers here's where collegiate meets reality...if only blogging would qualify for peer reviewed writing...I love the 3...'s instead of commas and semicolons...or thought spaces....et al...
Met with my faculty on Wednesday afternoon, conferenced about writing skills and techniques. Wrote 6 revisions of my Spring Activity Grant, had my boss do final edit and submitted with 1 hour to spare. Holy moly batpeople....received a confirmation email of receipt...slept like a baby...thank the maker...
Today REI...yahoo...new rain pants that actually zip fully up the sides so I can get them over my boots in the field, new rain light weight rain jacket that won't fall apart after 3 uses, polartec under layer bottoms, gators, lightweight snow gloves and snow baskets for my trek poles...saweet....
Tuesday we leave for Pack Forest...on the way we go to some kind of wetlands/swamp and tramp in the mud, later pull out some scotch broom ( oh la) and then to dinner and a lecture..
Wednesday...snowshoeing....snow cave building....field journals...tracking...etc....
Thursday...reverse Wendesday....
Friday...role playing ....oh goody...processing the trip...then homeward bound.
The really cool thing is I get to scope out one of the sites I will use for my Spring Project...ha ha ha....not letting that out of the bag just yet...
So campers...cold tonight up in the PNW...maybe some snow on Monday...oh that's tomorrow....ha...and we will be watching the avalanche reports closely...don't worry any danger...no snowshoeing (booo!)
Till then...grind the coffee tonight in case of power outage and pack for all contingencies...I think I need a sherpa...
Peace out.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Here and there and back again...
Hobbits abound!
Since JBLM or jablam as some know it...we had a field trip to Wilcox farms...the most up to date modern, salmon safe 25% free range chicken ranch in the area...I may submit this one field trip entry separately but after I graduate...
We have been introduced to water testing! Not for pools and community drinking water, but river water which may be your drinking water (aren't you glad I now know how to do this?)... pH, nitrates, turbidity (cloudiness) and disolved oxygen (if the oxygen is not disolved in the water things can't live, like salmon, frogs, and the like)... then we practiced water testing riverside on Medicine Creek...then we facilitated the testing yesterday with 105 gradeschoolers at Sequalitchew Creek...the kids were/are amazing...so bright, energetic and like sponges...we shared the techniques of water testing, shared our passion for nature studies and laughed...
I've also been rewriting a grant proposal for over a week, finalized it today thanks to my instructor, dare I say my hard work and my sister's eagle eye for punctuation and editing....off it went and lo and behold a response of acceptance of my application and thesis with budget...I can now rest knowing I'm only partially behind with my schoolwork and hope to catch up this weekend!
Brevity is the bane of time or the lack of...
Ok campers we are off again to the Mountain next week...snowshoeing (baring avalanche warnings), service learning, lectures and s'a mores!
Peace out....
Since JBLM or jablam as some know it...we had a field trip to Wilcox farms...the most up to date modern, salmon safe 25% free range chicken ranch in the area...I may submit this one field trip entry separately but after I graduate...
We have been introduced to water testing! Not for pools and community drinking water, but river water which may be your drinking water (aren't you glad I now know how to do this?)... pH, nitrates, turbidity (cloudiness) and disolved oxygen (if the oxygen is not disolved in the water things can't live, like salmon, frogs, and the like)... then we practiced water testing riverside on Medicine Creek...then we facilitated the testing yesterday with 105 gradeschoolers at Sequalitchew Creek...the kids were/are amazing...so bright, energetic and like sponges...we shared the techniques of water testing, shared our passion for nature studies and laughed...
I've also been rewriting a grant proposal for over a week, finalized it today thanks to my instructor, dare I say my hard work and my sister's eagle eye for punctuation and editing....off it went and lo and behold a response of acceptance of my application and thesis with budget...I can now rest knowing I'm only partially behind with my schoolwork and hope to catch up this weekend!
Brevity is the bane of time or the lack of...
Ok campers we are off again to the Mountain next week...snowshoeing (baring avalanche warnings), service learning, lectures and s'a mores!
Peace out....
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