I'm not the scribe but this is worthy of sharing...

So it's Jon's "Lunch box".... literally. His lunch, packed in a cracker box, which has his name on it...

PURE GENIUS!

Belated Commentary on Thursday and Friday

On Thursday we had an awesome day, everybody worked hard. I worked fill crew with Greg and Taylor, we all worked hard. It rained a little and it felt good, my awesome idea was to shake the trees for a nice cold shower. At lunch Jon did a lesson on how long things take to decompose. It hit me pretty hard how long some things took to decompose. Jon updated us with the most amazing thing ever!!!!But the other crew must not know. Styrofoam takes 1,000,000 years to decompose and that blew my mind. On Friday we went canoeing, it was awesome, me and Taylor were in the same canoe and we were the best at it. The water fights were awesome, the water was so warm. But maybe the best part was when we went down the rapids floating, that was so much fun. Over all that day was amazing! Sighanora. -AJ. R.

Waking Up Monday Morning Is The Worst

Well it's my turn to be the blogger/journalist for my crew, so here's my blog on the day of Monday, July 12th 2010. The crew split up into three different teams; Ellen was in charge of fill and rock crush, Max was in charge of setting the final check step and fixing up the drainage areas, and Rose was working on a French Drain. I started off with Max's group and worked on debarking the final log and setting it in place with Marcus. After snack, I was with Ellen working on crush and fill. We accomplished quite a lot overall as an entire crew up to this point; the check steps were finished, the French drain was nearly completed, and the crush work was complete in the area we were working on. During lunch, game-master Doug presented us with 3 alternatives to our regular game of Mafia. The choices were: nap time, a core workout, or playing Baccalaureate SCA Edition. We decided on a combination of these ideas. We played Mafia with a Tila Tequila Baccalaureate theme. I also added the idea of doing crunches while we were "sleeping" during Mafia. I don't think anyone participated. Lunch was also when Zach came up with the clever nickname of Trey-ceratops from the bunk of his hammock. After lunch it's safe to say we accomplished much less than we did in the time before. Rose's group completed the French drain and did some re-vegging. Max's group went on an expedition to find more Trees of Heaven/Tree of Heavens. Finally, Ellen's group went to the very beginning portion of the trail that has not yet been started and did some corridor work. Looking forward for the rest of the week, we should be completed with the present trail we are working on by weeks end. Just in time for the BEACH TRIP!!! Anyway, this blog went on for a lot longer than I expected it to, I figured I'd polish up on my writing skills.

Heat wave, day number 2

Today was another hot day but we accomplished a lot! We worked hard through the morning and after lunch, were treated with some awesome ice cream. The tread was finished yesterday and now we're working on adding water features to our trail. Today we finished three water bars and timber has been cut and shaved to be put into the trail. After much discrepancy as to how rocks in the trail should be handled, a Great Rock Compromise was finally reached. There were some pretty strong anti-rock people and some rock-lovers, but we made it work. The compromise was pretty awesome and a lot of thought went into it as our whole group tried to deem what was allowed to be kept in the trail. Doing fill today was pretty brutal, but that was done too. Basically I'd say it was a pretty good day!