Mood:  hungry

I was doing so well. I was trying hard not to get tick and chigger bites all over me. Since we are going to Bruce’s wedding in a couple of weeks I wanted my legs to look nice in my dress. This morning I got up to that horrible itchy feeling and looked down at my ankles to see them completely covered in chigger bites. THEY ITCH!!! I even have a bite on my stomach. Don’t’ know how the hell that happened. I wasn’t even in the woods yesterday. I was standing on the trail painting a bulletin board. Where did the chiggers come from? It is a quandary.

This 10 day duty shift is starting to get to me. I am losing my patient with stupid people. I seriously have to stop and count to 10 when I see a vehicle parked here after closing time or when someone drives around the closed gate. Tomorrow will be my last day and I will have 4 days off. So looking forward to it. Just hoping Lennie makes it home by then so we can spend that time together.

I was so excited this morning when I opened my email. I had received pictures from the program I did last week for my favorite group, The Johnston County Compensatory Education. It is a group comprised of people with disabilities ranging from Down Syndrome to blindness.  I brought out a bunch of animal pelts and skulls and we talked about their different adaptations they have to survive then I had them use the adaptation to “create” an animal on a blank circle and we then turned them into buttons for them to wear. Most of them ended up drawing deer and bunnies but that is okay. They had a great time doing it.

They are always excited about their trip to the park and they love to learn. Don’t get me wrong I love my kid’s program as well but this group always reminds me of why I got into this profession. I love that feeling I get when I show a visitor something like an animal pelt and they get that look of wonder and excitement on their face.

We even managed to spot a Luna Moth. Even though they are considered common moths they are very rarely seen. Once in moth form they only live about a week. Just long enough for them to mate.  After I left the group to have their picnic and do some swimming the apparently saw one of our eagles perched by the shoreline. I am so glad they had a good time.

Well I better get going. I am meeting the water weeds guy to look at a possible parrot feather outbreak and need to get the boat in the water. LATER!