The Week Here So Far

Sunday we drove the van to Cherokee to celebrate Kath and Don's 50th anniversary with them.  We enjoyed to time with them and were surprised (and so were they) by how many of Don's family came.  I hadn't seen many of them since their wedding.  Many new faces and names to try to learn.  We drove back Sunday night.  Most of the rangers here are supposed to be gone this week, so they gave us the week off.  However, this only lasted for a day and they called us back in.  Angela and her kiddos are in town this week with our old motorhome.  They are parked at Sarah's house.  We all got together on Monday and cooked fajitas at Andrea's house for supper. Tuesday was back to my volunteer job here.
My "office" here on many days is this Polaris Ranger that we use on the trails.

Today we had an interesting project here.  One of the ponds here has been holding walleye fry from the fish hatchery.  After the grow to about and inch and a half, the water is drained from the pond into the lake through this "fish kettle".  They were catching the fish and counting them by their weight.

 You can see a few of them in this bucket.

They are loaded into the tanks on this trailer with oxygen bubbling through the water.  They estimated that they had about 55,000 fish in the tanks when they were dont.

The pond, almost drained.

A not so friendly looking snapping turtle was left behind when the pond drained.

One of the fields that we planted today for the deer and birds had this killdeer nest in it, can you spot the egg?