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....
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