Water for the Wildlife

Yesterday Don did a special project in the southern end of Catalina Regional Park (he's the manager). Many volunteers from the community came to put a pond liner in the large wildlife pond in the conservation area of the park. It was great to see so many people turn out. Not even the rain and subsequent mud kept them away. The pond is large enough that it took two rolls of liner (overlapping in the middle) to get it lined. Each roll weighed 1200 pounds and had to be lifted with the little tractor before it could be rolled out.

It took everyone pulling with all of their strength to get the liner across the pond...

...and up the other side. what a chore!

Then it had to be unfolded and laid out flat. Once that was done, everybody took a break for donuts, fruit, and juice. Then it was back to work with the second half...same thing all over again! When that was done, large rocks were brought in to hold down the edges. Because of the rain, we couldn't get the middle seam put together. That will have to be done next week.

Afterwards, everyone took another food break, and a bunch of them posed for me. It was a big morning, and we're so glad that it went well. Don's been working on this project for weeks!



We're still working on the the bat exclusion project at the elementary school. We think we can have that done in another week or two.

Happy Easter, everyone! We are profoundly grateful for the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ and all it affords us. We enjoyed talking to the grand kids this morning, and will spend this afternoon with my side of the family. Life is good. We are happy and feel very blessed. We hope you do also.