RAIN

Well, it has been a while since I have written anything, but I have been so busy!  So last thursday I helped Matt Gibbons repair a road out at the Coburg Preserve.  It was really pretty, the ridge where the road was is tall enough so that you can see all of Eugene.  After I helped Matt I went back to the office and helped Matt B moved some plants out to the hayfield.  I hung out with some friends thursday night, then on friday I celebrated halloween!  I went over to Allen and Allison's for dinner and got to see Lili dressed up as Hermonie from Harry Potter.  Marley was the greatest little clown, she had a huge wig that looked hilarious on her.  After dinner I went over to a friends house and hung out before we went to an ultimate frisbee halloween party.  Eugene was a fun town on Halloween, everyone from the college was walking around in great costumes.  On Saturday I went up to Portland with a friend Andrew, he is Thompson-Wilson's Roomate's-Brother, and Thompson's girlfriend's younger sister, Nancy Beth.  We went to a Concert at Lewis and Clark which was a ton of fun.  The band is called Alpaca, I have seen them twice now and am starting to really enjoy there music!  You can look them up on myspace.com under music "alpaca."   On sunday we drove back to Eugene, and when I got home I helped celebrate Henry's birthday with some neighborhood friends of Jeff and Thea's.  The weekend was great fun and I think that I might be heading back up to portland for this coming weekend.  On monday I went to work and helped Matt B show a group of high school kids the hayfield and then started planting some.  The auger was broken though and I couldn't drill holes in the hayfield.  On tuesday I pulled up tons of strawberries, I have now bundled together about 1200 strawberry plants!  They will be put in the hayfield, and at another preserve called Briggs.  After working with the strawberries I cleaned some seed and then worked on finishing pruning the apple trees.  After pruning trees I went with Kyle, an Americorp intern, and filled protane tanks up for flame throwers.  We had backpacks with two gallon propane tanks in them.  There was a hose from the tank to a wand that had a pilot light at the end.  When you pulled a trigger on the wand a giant flame would fly out the end.  We flamed a bunch of non native plants that are taking over some of TNS's land because of a neighbor who had some on his land.  It was pretty fun using the blow torch!  Today I spent the whole day drilling holes at the hayfield.  I drilled 1820 3 inch holes in the field.  My arms feel like they are going to fall off!! Tomorrow I am going to a conference for Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.