Perhaps

I think I may have found something, as far as working goes, that I enjoy doing. I like soil determinations and just about anything that has to do with working with topography maps and the like. That's what I did today, at least for part of today.

I started out the morning working on soil determinations again like I had started to yesterday morning. The difference today was that I was actually the one running the programs on the computer and was able to help make decisions on what things were. Yay!

This morning I was also able to go out in the field, twice. The first time I went with Charlie and Rose to go to a "Site Showing." Site showings are when it's advertised to contractors that work with environmental projects that an area is going to be coming up for some kind of project. Potential plans for the project are drawn up and each contractor that shows up gets a copy. Then when everyone is on site, a member of the Soil and Water Conservation District, in our case Jim, gives an overview of the site and what is planned to be done. The site we were ate is going to be a bank restoration project so that the stream will not cut into the field anymore than it has. With this particular project the contractors were given a week to submit sealed bids to the SWCD and next week they'll be opened.

The second trip into the field today was with Charlie and Jon. We went to check on how the construction is coming on a diversion ditch next to a farmer's field. This meant that I was taught how to use the surveying equipment. Once we had walked the site we then needed to take some "shots" of the site - meaning we had to find out the elevation of different points in the ditch that was being worked on. It was kind of fun actually. It was even fun when later at the office we had to use the notes we took from surveying to plot the progress of the ditch as compared to what it was planned to be and what the land was like before. Unfortunately the project didn't quite fit the original plans.

I then spent the rest of the day in the office. I worked on more HEL determinations and tried to stand the smell of one of our new volunteers - she's a smoker who must take a break every few minutes, I don't see how she can work any where and get anything done.

Overall, today was a very good day.