Still Super Bowl Week

Thursday we enjoyed a potluck luncheon for volunteers and park staff. Lots of good food and friendship. The main course was lasagna made by one of the park staff and the park manager’s wife. We enjoyed it all, including all the deserts (carrot cake, cherry pie, dump cake and double rich chocolate cake) but still had to go to work after lunch. We wanted to finish up the outside walls of the shop building, which we did. We’ll take a few days from painting to do trail work before going back to do the trim. At the luncheon, Charlie (Park Manager) gave us a topographical aerial map of where he would like an additional primitive site. He also said that hogs had routed up the area of a site we marked last year and he could not find it. Fortunately we kept the GPS coordinates and will look for it to remark it.

Here is an interesting picture of a wood stork, and endangered species, which appears to have found a home in the park. They are hoping that they will develop a rookery on the preserve.

I know we mentioned the coyotes earlier and we have seen tracks along the road when we ride in the mornings. Here’s a close-up of a pair.

These appear closer to the gator, but they were taken from a safe distance.

These pictures were taken by a couple we met the first week we were here. They come here often and she is really into photography.

It rained part of the night and most of Friday Morning. According to Paul, the park biologist, we got a little over an inch in 12 hours. That’s a lot of rain for now as this is not the rainy season. You could see how it greened things up and there is more standing water. When it cleared in the afternoon we worked on the short nature trail. Relocated several trail markers and put in a couple too as well as trimmed so the markers could be seen. Did break a post hole digger handle trying to cut through the roots of some scraggly brush.

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