Yesterday, a snapshot of the day

With this post I just want to run through the day I had yesterday. Nothing special but this is what a day can be for me.

Before sunrise I got the day started with feeding my critters and my coffee habit. Then the official stuff started. The night before I took a pair of grad students out to a reef about 5 miles off shore. They attached some sampling equipment to a couple of the Biscayne National Park mooring balls. This morning it was our task to retrieve said equipment before sunrise. Yes, maybe a bit early but what a way to start the day.

The picture to the left is one of my offices. WVU never offered me accommodations like these. This was the return trip after sun up. The water was smooth. Easy boating.

On Saturday I went to BNP to pick up four students. Two of them are the ones who are working the sampling discussed above. The other two are doing a survey of the mangrove that surrounds Broad Key. Today I took the mangrove surveyors back to BNP.  I did some grocery shopping while on the mainland.  The shopping took some time and two stores.  I started to get a bit nervous about the schedule I had set.  I am still learning how to time the boat loading, transit and offloading at BK. I guess the students left on BK were concerned too. I got a cell phone call from them as I approached the boathouse. Twenty minutes later we were loaded and headed back to the mooring buoys to set the sampling equipment for a second night. Guess where I can be found at dawn in the morning...

Filling in around the boating and research support, I did normal keeper things. I started cleaning my house, a never ending process. But each cleaning usually takes on another area untouched in previous cleanings. This time the new area had not been cleaned in 40 years. And to do so, I had to disassemble some window screens which of course, got washed. With the screen removed I was able to wash the back side of the windows. It was then that I noticed the the window opening mechanism was not working. Well we can't have that! So I took an hour to working on that faulty opener. Do you see what is happening? Start one simple task which leads to another and another.  That is how my time here has been going. There is just so much to clean, fix, tighten, rearrange...

This is being written at 0300.  Not sure why but I was awake at 0200. But now I want to close these eyes again. Should I save this posting to further additions or just hit send?

cz, 0300 9/22/2014