Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Day 31

Wow! It has now been almost 5 weeks since we began- and there have been lots of neat wildlife sightings, and, of course, lots of headaches and early mornings.

Today's headache was our second flat tire (sorry folks, I didn't stand around and take pictures this time...I had to help believe it or not!). Not only did we get a flat and had to change it in the middle of the woods, we also broke the handle to the jack and had to take a ride all over southwestern Virginia to find a replacement this evening. I have to thank the nice mechanic that handed us one for free and told us not to tell his boss. Seems like there still are a few people that will help others out without expecting anything in return. I am certainly grateful, because he told us that to replace the handle would be about $89! Ridiculous! I guess now instead of having a universal jack design, car companies make theirs specific so you have to buy the replacement parts from Jeep, for example.


And my team was so enthusiastic that we dropped the Jeep off at the Ford dealer to get the tire replaced and took Chris' truck out to the closer site to do habitat plots. I was a little disappointed thinking that we would lose a day of work (even though we did get our bird surveys in this morning before the flat), but everybody came through for a productive day anyway.


Not much else new- no new animal sightings yet! My poison ivy is starting to get a little better, which is a nice relief. Few more days of work, then a short trip to Blacksburg!

Mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Glad to hear there's still nice people out there. Who knew you'd also get a mechanics certificate this summer while doing your surveys? Look at you changing tires and getting new jacks. Beautiful flowers Aim!