Mojado

Our first really wet day here at La Selva in a week or so. We had good eggs for breakfast and there were a total of four people at breakfast including myself. Felt a lot like another weekend day since most of the project assistants are taking a long weekend. Goofed around the office for a little bit, got together the things and started downloading last night’s Entourage.

Hit the trail with PG at 7:30 and made it out there in good time. Incorporating a brief rain delay we worked for about 3 hours in a pretty tough area of the plots. Tons of vines and spiders and humongous downed trees to hop over. It was awesome to get an unplanned hunk of 43 trees done this morning, putting my finish date of Thursday well within reach.

Got back to the station early enough to squeeze in a shower before lunch. Again, one of my top favorite meals in spaghetti & meat sauce, green beans, and super special bread. Followed lunch by starting to watch Entourage, reading the news and eventually taking a trip for coffee and to pay my whopping bill at reception.

With the errands completed I didn’t do too much until making another coffee run before a talk at 4:30. One of the REUs Natalie gave her final talk on a project testing the effect of pesticides on red-eyed tree frog tadpoles. All the tadpoles died; somebody called that one, I think. After the talk we had a short snack break and I stuck around for a little awards show put on by the REUs.

Currently, I’m typing the blog entry and watching baseball on ESPN, something I hope to be doing in Bristol in a week’s time. Of course, we’ll see about that. Probably going to spend tomorrow entering the thousand or so data points I have waiting for me and doing a couple short write-ups for my project.

Just as excited about everything involved with flying home. Two hundred and twenty nine trees to go, oh joy! Until tomorrow…

BP