Day 8 and CD " The Way Life Should Be"

Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Day: Day 8

Date: 06/09/09

I know I’ve skipped a lot of dates in between but many of the things done last week are similar to this week so I’ll recount more of this week. Ok? Ok.

Both on Friday and today, I went out on a barge into Wellfleet Harbor to help put different concrete blocks and bags of shells out into the bay. The material is part of an experiment being done by the sanctuary to determine which material the oysters will grow on best. The work is definitely wet but most certainly fun. We load a bunch of the material onto the barge, drive out to the site at high tide, and then dump everything overboard. The dumping part is my favorite. Haha! Then at low tide some of the people go out and rearrange the block properly on each quadrant. The work really reminds me of Machias and a certain Marine Biology woman who has my heart. I think thats why I am so eager to volunteer to do it. I had some good conversations with the boat’s Captain, Bob, and his first mate, Cliff. They both have heard of Machias or been close to it and we talked about many things including Alaska, the fishing industry, and school. They seemed a bit gruff at first and I was surprised that they opened up on me on this trip. I thought “ Well, this is what Meg would be doing if she were here... Gotta pick their brains ;) ). At the end of the trip I was wet and cold and I came back to the dorms and curled up in my sleeping bag with my new ipod nano. Yay for comfort music.

The osprey project is going well too. I went out again the other to get some coordinates. I ended up marching/sinking across a salt marsh and eventually filled one of my hip waders with some awesome smelling water. :/ It was hot that day and I, for some reason, was in a long sleeve t-shirt. Bad news bears.

I went home this weekend and did a lot in just three days! I went to the movies Friday night and saw UP with Dan, Brent, and Kristie. Saturday I went to West Hill to visit, lunch with my Dad in Johnston, helped move some furniture for my aunt, and then went to an intense practice at Dan’s that left me with huge calluses on two of my fingers.

I began working on my soundtrack concept CD last night. I’d like to make a CD that contains theme songs for people at Machias as well as some songs encompassing things like fires at the pit, adventure, and the ocean. I’m thinking of calling it “The Way Life Should Be”. Each song is purely instrumental and the people who are part of the story in the song are represented by an instrument. For example, in the song I started last night called “ The Islander”, Jordan was the clarinet, Duce the trombone, Meg the irish fiddle, Bets the french horn, and I was the cello. The instruments behave as these people would and I’ trying to capture personalities musically. Duce gave me some good track listing names for potential songs such as “King Kuester’s Castle” I’d like this song to start with Kuester himself, a sax, and progressively add odd instruments in until it blows up with rage and volume. This will happen a few times in the song as it did in our experiences. Others may include a Duce song called “ Where’s My Hammer, I’ll Fix It...”, a Meg song called “Sun is Warm, Grass is Green” and a McD song called “ Bob Saget!” I’d like to get everyone into in some way if they each don’t have their own song. Send me any “ideers” if you have them. Thanks for thinking about me! Until next time!