finally added a few new photos to the album!

Monday was kind of painful, in that after our weekly meeting, I spent the rest of the day folding pamphlets/brochures. Six hours of folding those papers into thirds! Talk about mind-numbing.

Yesterday, I was with the YCC kids, helping them around the refuge - we swept out one of the storage bays where they keep all the industrial equipment (like farming tractors, the snowplow, that kind of thing). With 6 people, it still took over an hour! We got a nice break early on, when the leader's wife came in with cinnamon buns for breakfast for everyone - it was the leader's birthday yesterday! After that, we were sanding down the wooden fences and various gas tanks around the building, in preparation to repaint it all. There were some crazy storms brewing, and we got a break midafternoon when it started raining on us.

We went back out soon enough, though, once the rain let up for a bit. At one point, the biologist came out in these really thick coveralls, explaining that he was preparing for the potential tornadoes that were forecasted, pointing out that the padding would cushion him if the twister were to toss him around! Really, though, he just got his shipment of new uniforms and wanted to model off those sweet overalls.

Today we did our last day of fencing! Fortunately there wasn't much, so the work wasn't too hard.

Tomorrow we're going to learn about the Fire crew, and after that I should finally get to work on tha darned cactus survey with the biologist that we've been talking about for weeks!