August 13 &14, 2010

Friday 13~~~~What a warm day it was in the park today, I think we all had shorts on. Ranger Dan got on the radio and told all of us hosts to bring our golf carts up to the main compound for a cart wash. Kent was working in the office, so I emptied out our rakes, shovel, metal cans for hot ashes and junk and headed up there to get my pathetic one eyed (light) cart all polished up. Dan used a pressure washer and we lined up like kids in school or maybe like going through a real car wash. The water spraying all over really felt good as hot as it was today and it did make the one eyed monster look better. It sure is ugly, but I wouldn't want to walk and carry all those tools from site to site everyday. Plus we meet each other when it is slow and we do our daily chats parked along the road. The men are worse at this chatting thing than a group of old ladies at ladies aide. (picture of Kent & Fred) Saturday 14~~~~I was asked to teach the Children's Education Class again this Saturday, I helped with this class early this spring, so it was an easy one to do and beings we spent time in Arizona watching them band the hummingbirds and helping catch and carry them in little cages, I knew a lot about them and I had our computer with pictures on it to show them pictures of all the birds we caught and released. Today we made little hummingbird feeders with a small glass tube with a lid with a small opening for the sugar water. They were all decorated with foam flowers that slit down the tube and red pipe cleaners for antennas and green florist wire to hang it in a tree or on a nail. The kids love classes where they make something they can take home. (pictures)