I read over the blogs since Monday and realized that I had made a few errors in spelling, etc., but have not figured out how to go back and correct them so I apologize for the mistakes. Hopefully, you have been able to figure out what was meant. I also realized that I forgot to mention that on Monday, while Thadra and I were mapping along the dirt road, we saw a young man who was hiking the Florida Trail. He was very excited to hear that eventually he will be able to walk more along the river instead of detouring out to the road at times. As more property is bought, the trail becomes more scenic and that is a very good thing. He has been averaging 30 miles per day! He also has hiked the Appalachian Trail twice!
Today we got up and packed our gear into the car. We also carried the other's personal suitcases. After check-out we took both cars to the site we had left off on yesterday. Again the teams were Jeff and I, Dave and Carla. Thadra continued to get GPS points on the first parcel (she didn't get to finish yesterday as the batteries quit). When she was finished, she met up with us and mapped out the rest of our line to the river. We started at hole 6 today and did through hole 19 before lunch. We all met up at the river for lunch - beautiful day - probably got up to 80 - and the river was lovely. After lunch, Thadra hooked up with Dave and Carla and mapped ahead for them. We quit about 2PM so we could drive back to Tallahassee and unload some of the gear at the office. We had several unusual occurances today - while Jeff and I were working, we heard a huge crash and saw a tree fall down in the forest. Fortunately, we were not right next to it. We walked over to it to see what had happened. It appeared to be a very large dead tree that just gave up the ghost - no wind and nothing unusual to make it go over - it just did. Thadra saw an owl fly over at about the same time so we fear that its home was destroyed. The other thing was that as I was screening, I heard something metallic. When I was able to clear the screen I saw that it was part of Jeff's shovel! Some of those roots were real killers! Fortunately, the shovel still worked so we were able to keep working. We dug through to hole 24 - only one more to go on our line to get to the river. They will be coming back in two weeks to finish this parcel and start on another nearby. Jeff said we did okay as we dug 126 holes this week. I just feel badly that he did all the digging when he worked with me whereas Dave and Carla were able to switch. He will certainly sleep like a baby when he gets home tonight. We stopped on the way home from the lab at a pharmacy as Dave got into poison ivy somewhere out in the woods. We both enjoyed the shower and snacked on crackers and cheese instead of going out to dinner. We have tomorrow off as we worked four 10-hour days and we just heard that the lab is closed on Monday because of Presidents' day so we have a 4 day weekend! I'm sure we will find something fun to do although it is supposed to rain most of the weekend. Am enclosing two pictures. One is of Carla matching a soil sample and the other is of Jeff standing in front of the famous sign. I'm not sure the picture of the sign is large enough for you to see, so it reads, "KEEP OUR ER GIT SHOT". Are you humming the theme song to Deliverance yet?
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