Errands

I spent most of today running errands -- it turns out you need to run errands, even in paradise. We ran the trap line around 10am. One of the traps had gone missing -- probably carried off by dogs. We searched around the trap side -- I went on a wide search all around, but we couldn't find it. Sigh. Another dead mongoose, probably.

As soon as we got back from the field, I led an expedition to the store. We stopped at KMart -- mainly to get rum. I got a bottle of pineapple flavored rum and a larger bottle of estate dark rum. The college kids go through it fast. We also got some johnny cakes and donuts. I'd been dreaming of the donuts since we'd been in the store last week. They'd been cooking the donuts and I could smell them while I was standing in line. Mmmm... Donuts....

The grocery store, we bought an enormous amount of beer and I laid in some more breakfast provisions and the ingredients for Thai Curry for tonight. Someone tried to make curry a few days ago and it didn't turn out well, so I wanted to make curry that was good. It has turn out quite well, but people aren't back yet. :-(

After the grocery store, I ran Tricia to the airport to drop off their rental car. Jacob, Tricia and their kids leave tomorrow. Luckily, the rest of us have a few more days in paradise. We still need to do the Cruzan rum tour (I'm not sure I need to go this time) and go to the East end. And we really should go out to Monk's Bath -- that's a tradition now!

We've got two mongooses out with tracking devices now. Now, if we can just recover the devices, we can actually get some data. It would be great to get some data.

We've been talking about grandiose plans for the next year. There is a road construction project going on in the refuge and we might be able to get funding to build some nature trails as part of the project. I'm going to think about getting my writing students to write some prose we could use for a guide to the refuge. Why not?

It's been great having Jacob here. We've been talking about establishing a network that could feed data back to us all year from the refuge. If we set up the network, we could use it for a lot of things: mongooses sure, but maybe dogs, tortoises, and land-crabs. Do people want to know where the land-crabs go? If they do, we could answer that question with these devices.