tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91260893385464068772024-03-15T18:10:17.295-07:00Carolyn's and Wally's JournalWallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-15716841733034387852021-05-10T09:44:00.005-07:002021-05-10T09:44:55.431-07:00<span style="font-size: medium;">We have settled in nicely in our new home...just the right size for us. We recently got over having covid! My immune system kicked in...over in 5 days. Wallace spent time in hospital with pneumonia. He took a little longer, but with Remdisiver, he came back. He lost a lot of weight, but he is now back to himself!</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We both miss all our friends while volunteering at National Wildlife Refuges...and miss not doing it now as we learned so much, worked really hard while enjoying ourselves.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We plan on traveling a lot more now that we are foot loose and fancy free! I may even blog about it....if I can figure out HOW to share pictures. I don't remember how I did it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So until then....adios</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-64434246435604161432018-10-30T10:10:00.001-07:002018-10-30T10:10:05.104-07:00CHANGESWELL A LOT OF CHANGES TO OUR LIFESTYLE HAVE BEEN MADE.<br />
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TWO YEARS AGO, WE LEFT OFF WHILE WE WERE IN WISCONSIN. WALLACE HAD BEEN HAVING SOME CHEST PAINS OFF AND ON. WE LEFT THERE AND HAD A LITTLE R AND R AT A COE IN ILLINOIS. FROM THERE WE WENT TO ANOTHER COE NEAR A LITTLE TOWN IN CARTHAGE, TENNESSEE. THE CHEST PAINS WERE GETTING WORSE WHEN WE FINALLY DECIDED SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE DONE. WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM THERE AND HE WAS IMMEDIATELY AMBULANCED AWAY...NEAR NASHVILLE WHERE HE HAD A STINT PUT IN...A HEART ATTACK!!!<br />
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WE THEN MOVED ON TO CAPE ROMAIN NWR IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE WE FOLLOWED UP WITH A CARDIOLOGIST THERE. HE WAS DOING GREAT, FEELING WONDERFUL. WE HAD TO LEAVE THIS REFUGE EARLY BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE. WE LEFT FOR OUR NEXT VOLUNTEER POSITION EARLY...SELA, IN LOUISIANA. ALL WAS GOING WELL UNTIL ANOTHER HURRICANE RAN US OUT EARLY.<br />
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OUR NEXT STOP WAS LAGUNA NWR NEAR SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS. WE WERE THERE FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS UNTIL WALLACE HAD KNEE SURGERY. BELOW, I WAS TAKING A FEW PEOPLE OUT FOR SOME BIRDING.<br />
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IN THE BACK OF OUR MIND WAS TO FIND A HOME, AND GET OFF THE ROAD. WE BOUGHT A HOME IN MCALLEN, TEXAS, BUT CONTINUED OUR VOLUNTEERING BACK AND FORTH TO THE REFUGE TILL OUR TIME WAS UP.<br />
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INVITED SOME PAST VOLUNTEERS OVER TO OUR HOME FOR A WONDERFUL TIME. FOUR OTHERS ARE NOT SHOWN HERE.<br />
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KNEE SURGERGY WENT WELL AND WE ARE PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS.<br />
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A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN BUT I WILL SPARE YOU MOST OF IT.<br />
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WE PARKED OUR 5TH WHEEL ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE WE LIVE...IT IS IN STORAGE AT THE TIME, AND IT IS HANDY TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT.<br />
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WE HAVE HAD TIME WITH OUR YOUNGEST SON AND GRANDCHILDREN...ALWAYS WONDERFUL.<br />
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HERE THEY ARE PLAYING WITH A DRONE AROUND OUR HOME.<br />
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WE TOOK A TRIP TO WEST VIRGINIA WHERE WE MET UP WITH OUR OLDEST SON, WALLY. HE SHOWED US AROUND THE TOWN OF FAIRMONT WHERE HE LIVES AND WORKS. IT WAS OVER TOO QUICKLY, BUT WE WERE SO GLAD TO SEE HIM AGAIN.</div>
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WE VISITED TWO STATE CAPITOLS. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINA AND LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.</div>
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WE ARE NOW BACK HOME....BUT THE ROAD IS CALLING!!!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After many months with no blog because it is getting harder and harder to do, I started thinking it was not worth the aggravation. Once again, I will see how it goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made it to Wisconsin where we have been since the middle of May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is now July and if I can get this thing to cooperate, we are back in business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was taken at the Benoit welcome center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have the prime spot this year where we are not looking at a trailer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been enjoying beautiful sunsets as well as many animals, including a woodchuck with 6 babies. Adorable.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdgVO-9ZngA_D53051blyq0UFoDPrlzl2dAiOdqZ4kxvVMaCo8Ky4IrKXsRZBbIeV8jk_w3VG6H_GxyIYxlINgfpY80pUVhQ4a8F90BVwIBpEO_Fv4L3tbYWwxmlPnjjKo1VMMOngjE3v/s1600/20170424_144238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdgVO-9ZngA_D53051blyq0UFoDPrlzl2dAiOdqZ4kxvVMaCo8Ky4IrKXsRZBbIeV8jk_w3VG6H_GxyIYxlINgfpY80pUVhQ4a8F90BVwIBpEO_Fv4L3tbYWwxmlPnjjKo1VMMOngjE3v/s400/20170424_144238.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Our first big project was working on this floating boardwalk. All 2800 feet of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was together until a 50 mph wind separated it into about 5 sections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Danny Breaux, refuge manager of Atchafalaya. You can see how massive these signs are now that they are in the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was nice to be included in putting them in the ground since we did everything else from painting the posts, attaching the signs and preparing them to be picked up and put on the goose neck trailer for transport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep in mind those sacks of concrete are 60 lbs. each. The worst part of this job was dealing with the traffic coming and going through Baton Rouge. We were through with the signs around noon having started at 6:00 am. This turned out to be a 12 hour day. We stopped for lunch after dropping off the old signs at a burn pile. Lunch took forever...maybe because we were HUNGRY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Wednesday, the day before we put the signs up, we participated in the yearly Christmas tree drop</span> <span style="font-size: large;">at Bayou Sauvage. These trees are gathered from New Orleans, brought to this area where we do this. This year we got a little different perspective as the National Guard needed our help. As you can see in the picture, the trees were too close to the green tree line and needed to be pulled away...I got to do this. All I did was back up with their guidance, they attached one of four bundles, I drove them out and they unattached and left them in a row. There are 4 straps with 50 trees in each strap. There are two guardsmen attaching a sling to the chopper. They are taken out and dropped in the wetland where they create a barrier to help prevent wind erosion. Eventually, plant life grow on these trees. Last year, go back to our blog and you will see we worked from the boat freeing up the trees after they were dropped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then up, up and away. This year we were responsible for transporting</span> <span style="font-size: large;">the slings from airboat back to the guards and helping them with our four wheel drive truck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, those are the last of the BIG projects this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until next time...</span>Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-47895753757326447832017-03-18T05:53:00.000-07:002017-03-18T05:53:46.997-07:00Winding UP<span style="font-size: large;">We are busy getting all our projects finished before we leave SELA NWR</span>. <span style="font-size: large;">We will be making our way back to Horicon NWR in Wisconsin for the summer, our second summer back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We arrived just in time to help out with the big year event, "Wild Things." That was in October...which means we have been here almost six months. Longer stay than most!!! That was because we vacated Cape Romain early because of a hurricane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have gotten to help out at Bayou Teche, building two docks and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All boards were replaced at Ridge Trail...and now we took care of a slanting boardwalk in one area...the other is under water. The boardwalk at Boy Scouts is now up to par with all loose boards snugged up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were asked if we would like to help Brian Pember, assistant refuge manager at Bayou Teche NWR, with a program. Little did we know we would need to tow this boat there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got a late start, but managed to get there in time to give it a trial run to see if it was going to fit between the gate you see in the background. Brian was told, "it won't fit," which caused him some stress. Not only did it fit, but we got through it for a beautiful ride in a section that a lot of people don't get to see. This is on the refuge where there is no hunting...EVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our second tour of eight was a crew of happy people, we were drowned rats as we got caught up in the soft rain, but they wanted to keep going. There was a lady on board with the news from Baton Rouge</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-26862081572610925362016-12-14T08:16:00.000-08:002016-12-14T08:16:09.388-08:00It Has Been Awhile<span style="font-size: large;">I guess I had to be reminded that it has been awhile since my last post. Thank you Tom for waking me up and giving me the drive needed to post again. Losing interest? Maybe. This one is for you, or should I say, because of you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, we are still in Lacombe, Louisiana at the refuge. We have been busy with several projects...so we will catch you up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been busy with the boardwalk at Ridge Trail at Bayou Sauvage. Not only replacing boards that are rotten or soon to be rotten, but also replacing some of the toe rails as you see in this picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some may think, piece of cake...but let me assure you it is NOT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it is something we have down pat now and are quite good at. It is physically demanding though. We are now at the end with only 4 more toe rails to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there is always the unexpected waiting to be found while traveling through refuge land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another project was to somehow straighten the rails in this area. They were leaning away from the boardwalk as well as insecure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My plan was used (every now and then I can be useful). We asked Dave to come help us, he is seen standing in the photo...Wallace is down below tightening all the nuts that have gotten loose over time. We used tie straps to bring the rails together, and worked down the line. Worked like a charm, and we finished in one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we set up a booth for Bird Migration day at the zoo in New Orleans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We helped teach how to use binocular, and it was a big hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are always boundary signs in need of repair. Not only do we need to replace the bent sign, but this channel post is bent and twisted which called for a tool to pull the post up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another project, this one at Atchafalaya which is west of Baton Rouge...a long distance from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This shows what it looked like before and after the sanding. Here I am with this refuge manager, Danny Breaux. When we sanded off the rust, the green paint showed through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is our latest project. Completely overhaul this fishing pier at Bayou Teche, another one of our refuges where we have to travel a good distance to get to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the four of us after we screwed in the last of the pickets. Dave and I put in all the pickets but 8 that went under the handicap area. I have on my knee pads as I was on my knees attaching all the pickets at the bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished project!!! For the most part, the lumber was pre cut for us. We had help from two other guys. Chelsea and Brian, employees also helped. Brian told us what he wanted as per rules. One of the guys (friends of BT) had removed most of the boards and had attached stringers before we arrived the first day. The four of us spent the night at Mandalay, another one of our refuges, in the office where there is a bunkhouse. We had a great time, all our meals were provided, and the beds were comfortable. However, we worked the next morning in the wind, cold weather with misty rain, and were finished by noon. It is great to work with a big crew! AND, I think Brian was impressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is Chelsea and Brian from Bayou Teche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We wish all our visitors at Bayou Teche, happy fishing off your new pier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am now recuperating from the worst sinus infection which is going around in the area!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Tom for getting us going again...I hope you ALL enjoy getting caught up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to help out with Wild Things, our big festival of the year with over 5000 visitors attending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all worked together putting up over 20 tents for the big event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were not expected to be here at this time, but hurricane Matthew changed our plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It felt so good to be driving into the gates of this refuge in Louisiana after the harrowing last few days in South Carolina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the brown shirts (employees) along with the volunteers getting our marching orders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone pitches in to get the job done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is just a portion of the crowd in the back of headquarters participating in some of the events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is all free of charge except for drink and food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wally the woodpecker thrilled some of the kids. Pictures were taken with him as we walked among the crowd. Only one child cried...did not want anything to do with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We finally went to Avery Island to do the tabasco tour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Avery Island is a salt dome known as the source for this delicious sauce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We took the tour of the museum, the greenhouse peppers, the barrel warehouse, the blending room, the bottling line, learned about the salt mine, had lunch at their 1868 restaurant, and of course shopped in the country store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The blending room was interesting where the vats hold the pepper mash. The smell hits you right away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lady is putting on some of the labels that did not get them on the production belt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are salt domes all across the Gulf of Mexico. We first experienced these in South Texas at La Sal del Rey, a part of the Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The salt is used in the making of the sauce, by placing it on top of the barrels of mash, which takes about 3 years to cure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are many flavors to sample in the country store. Did you notice Wallace in among the display?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a long day, but now we can cross that trip off our list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are back to our usual work. During the brochure run this past week, we found this discarded baby bed that had been dumped on the refuge. We saved the wooden parts...maybe they can be recycled in some way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cleaned these brochure racks, something I always do when we get back, while Wallace weed whacked. I replaced the covers and filled them with brochures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is what they look like now. Probably no one notices since the brochures cover them up unless the slot is empty. I like to clean them up...the yearly cleaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One hour we are walking on the beach with friends, having a great time, then stopped for a delicious lunch of flounder and shrimp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We drove 85 miles and needed to stop for the night as we were completely exhausted. Our first overnight at a roadside park!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Highway 17 has been designated the Sweetgrass Basket Makers Highway. This road takes us from Charleston to Bulls Landing Road where we are parked for the summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All along the road are these little places where the Gullah Geechee set up the baskets to sell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Julia...it was time to get my basket and she was kind enough to let me get this photo. My basket was priced at $40.00 but you can go as high as $500.00. This custom was started by one little lady who sat out a chair and sold them...then one by one it turned into this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Julia's stand. You can see another on down the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was in the process of making another basket that she is holding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This craft was brought over from West Africa where the baskets were used in winnowing rice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The basket sewing is viewed as a gift from God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These people, the Gullah Geechee, have made a good business for themselves. It has given them a sense of purpose, meaning and belonging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love my basket!!!</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-85685464535873307172016-09-10T14:36:00.000-07:002016-09-10T14:39:17.742-07:00Lighthouse Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tricia, volunteer coordinator, is back and we spent some time working with her on Lighthouse Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This picture was taken inside the tall lighthouse after our work was finished. She was giving us more information about the refuge and its surroundings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are two lighthouses on the island as you will see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were 9 of us working together with loppers, weed eaters, brush hog etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A really neat place with a lot of history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the two lighthouses in this photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After disembarking from our boat, the guys start weed eating the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We docked the boat at low tide, causing us to walk on oyster beds and through the muck, I almost came out of one of my boots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you notice...the tall lighthouse is leaning. It tilts several degrees out of plumb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tall one (the second one) was built in 1857 with 212 steps to the top, and it is 154' tall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tricia showed us this old buoy that was used during the Civil War. She is the one who discovered it. What a find!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see the condition of the metal stairs. For this reason we can not venture up to the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work is being done to replace all those 212 steps!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can only imagine the beautiful view from the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our first three years out, we gave tours of a lighthouse in Winchester Bay, Oregon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see the work we got done. The grass was up to our knees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How about that old ceramic sign!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a really HOT day, but we all pitched in and gotter don</span><span style="font-size: large;">e!!! Lighthouse Island is in the Wilderness Area where all motorized tools are off limits, but in this case it has been approved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There will be lighthouse tours coming up done by concessionaires. We have done our part to spruce it up for the public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I need to correct a mistake on the last post...there have been over 2000 Loggerhead turtles nesting on Cape Romain this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our first week was spent learning the area. It seems like we will be spending our time at the visitor center/ee building at least until Wallace has had his 2 week check up...not our favorite place, but with this heat, it may be the best place. Here he is pressing a button that lights up the floor which shows a map of the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We enjoyed some time on Bullls Island. It was great to be on a beach again. We drove around on an atv experiencing some of the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The refuge is made up of islands. It stretches for 22 miles along the coast (66,287 acres).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We live near Awendaw, a small town seen here on the map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Garris Landing. We are in walking distance of this area, just to the left of the picture. This will be handy for Wallace to wet a line as the pier is a great place to fish and crab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the first permanent European settlement of South Carolina. On March 17, 1670, they arrived on the ship "Carolina" on their way to establish Charles Town...now Charleston. The remaining "Old Fort" was used for protection of pillaging pirates, and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. What is left is this round base made up of oyster shells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This beautiful two story house was used as a hunting lodge, and it with the land was donated to the Fish & Wildlife Service in 1932.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Loggerhead sea turtles nest on the refuge here and they have had a banner year with over 1000 nests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to our newest follower, Glenda Ramee!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our next stop was at another COE in Tennessee where we have stayed in the past. Wallace had been experiencing some chest pains off and on which began to be more on than off!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here we are now. We spent the night in Newberry, S.C. at the Walmart...hot, hot, hot, but we survived after a meal at El Poblano at our front door. A short distance of 169 miles more and we reached Garris Landing where we will be until November.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mike parked "my" tractor right behind our rig...hum. Left me with this view!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A church built in 1861.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not the typical black and white. The cows have come home!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So many of these "Rustic Roads" to drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is our last week here at Horicon NWR, so, I will go over some of the other things we have accomplished while here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was told to deposit them off to the side of this trailer. I had them stacked neatly only to find out they had to be counted for replacement...they got spread out. Oh, well, so much for that! I had fun and practiced how to work the clamp and stack them.</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-27158455431294343352016-07-16T07:44:00.000-07:002016-07-16T07:44:37.404-07:00Pencil Museum Inc.<span style="font-size: large;">Having seen a picture on my Facebook, it renewed some thoughts about a couple we have not seen in three years. He does not post often, so I am glad I happened upon it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After seeing their post on Facebook, I kinda remembered they lived in Wisconsin and sure enough, not only do they live here, but not too far from where we are here at Horicon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remembered they run a pencil museum...googled it and found the address.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Karen showed us all the pencils they have collected from many places...the latest being from Switzerland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This collection is quite whimsical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They boast of having over 20,000 unique pencils, 1884 slate ones, an 8 foot long one, drum stick ones, and bullet pencils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They treated us to a home made meal after our tour, which was very tasty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our captain, Tom, took us on this nice pontoon boat all around the lake. The dock is right behind their home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very nice leisurely ride on Lake Winneconne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was also our guide and told us all about the area. He grew up here and shared a lot with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We certainly did enjoy our afternoon seeing and visiting with these friends, and catching up on so much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom told us one could travel by boat from their home all the way out to Saint Lawrence and beyond...wouldn't that be nice. I was already looking where I could pitch a tent on the pontoon and GO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Karen and Tom for a wonderful afternoon!!!</span><br />
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-50494094631832137102016-07-03T08:24:00.000-07:002016-07-03T08:24:53.169-07:00Kettle Moraine<span style="font-size: large;">What is a "kettle moraine," you ask? At least that is what we wondered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After our little tour of Fond du Lac, we drove east to the northern section of the moraine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an earlier blog, I mentioned "The Ice Age Trail." Some of it passes through the moraine, which is in the State Forest where the National Park has this visitor center...a very interesting stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We learned a little more about this glacier and the effects of what it had on the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We climbed to the top of this tower for some amazing views of the wind farms, farms with barns and silos, and toward Holy Hill which is in the southern unit of the moraine, another place we plan on visiting in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought this beauty of a scene was worth sharing. People take great pride in their land. </span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-31129297794797230562016-06-26T07:58:00.000-07:002016-06-26T07:58:29.960-07:00Tour de Fond du Lac<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fond du Lac is a town south of Lake Winnebago, the largest inland lake in Wisconsin. It is French for "foot of the lake."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Winnebago Indians were here before the French explorers visited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lakeside Park was an area which we explored. It is a 400 acre park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lighthouse is one of six on Lake Winnebago inside the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was built in 1933, Cape Cod style with a flagstone base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flag flew at half staff for the victims of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While waiting for a zillion teenagers to come down from the top, I noticed this etching on the side of the stairs, W+C, and no, we did not carve it there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After our brief tour of Fond du Lac, we explored another part of the great state of Wisconsin. I will save that trip for another time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another project that was given to us was building this floating platform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the finished product, not too shabby, huh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know how 80 men lived in those close quarters!!! Wallace could hardly get through the doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another road trip!!! Dave Bolin, refuge specialist, asked if we would like to take this part to be repaired...a 367 mile round trip.</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-38451590404665148422016-06-11T08:01:00.000-07:002016-06-11T08:01:03.353-07:00Now, For the Rest of the Story<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry I had to end the post, but there was a knock on our door. "Would you like to make another trip, leaving in about an hour?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Bald Eagle had been executed on a power line and brought over to Horicon by this game warden. It needed to be taken to Madison for a necropsy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a sad thing to lose one of our magnificent birds...but it happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The murals are depicting "The Marriage of the Atlantic and the Pacific" by the opening of the Panama Canal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent some time in this room, North Hearing Room, looking at fossils in the marble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "Badger State" got its nickname from their lead mining towns. The miners lived in shelters dug into hillsides and so they were called badgers after the burrowing animals. The badger is the state animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fountain in the photo to your right was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with one of the two lakes in the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Capitol Building is built on an isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-20186055767094282802016-06-09T09:34:00.002-07:002016-06-09T09:34:59.124-07:00Madison, State Capitol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The State Capitol is right in the middle with roads going out like a wagon wheel, much like the building itself. You will see what I mean later in another photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we finally found a place to park. We did not fit into the parking garage. We found a place, paid $4.50 and could only stay 4 hours...the max.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With road construction going on, and roads taking us in and out, we found it a little confusing, much like the inside of the building itself!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are 4 wings with 8 entrances and hallways leading you here and there. You can only go halfway on one side then take stairs or elevators to get to the other side!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Wisconsin" statue stands on top at 15' five inches and represents the state motto "forward."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She wears a crown with a badger on it, their state animal, and a globe with an eagle perched on the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rotunda interior dome mural is 200' overhead with four glass murals surrounding it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It depicts "Resources of Wisconsin" with all the products being displayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is just one of the four mosaics surrounding the dome. Liberty, guarding the ballot box!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the Supreme Court with a chair for each of the 7 justices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The eight columns under the mural is made of Benou marble from France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent a lot of time in this room. Here is a close up of the marble from France, very colorful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Snooping around in every crack and cranny, I noticed this under the table in the room. The furniture is hand carved mahogany. Notice the back of the chairs as well.</span></div>
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<br />Wallace and Carolyn Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629747576918839009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126089338546406877.post-51033311913945916342016-06-05T07:40:00.000-07:002016-06-05T07:40:27.405-07:00Necedah National Wildlife Refuge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our LE Officer, John, invited us to ride along with him...he had some work to do there, and we could visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stopped for Subway sandwiches for lunch and that was the first thing we did when we arrived.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">One of the endangered species on the refuge is the Karner Melissa Blue Butterfly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fellow with his back to the camera is Doug, refuge manager, who offered us a tour of the refuge where we saw many of the butterflies. The host plant is the lupine and they are blooming profusely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a great tour...the refuge is 44,000 acres big. This manager knows the flora as well as the fauna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorite woodpeckers flew in as we were having lunch. The red headed is pictured on their brochure, so we thought it only fitting that he showed himself as the first bird we saw right away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way up, John checked on some of the WPA's and pointed them out to us. The Leopold Waterfowl Production Area consists of 57 areas in 17 counties totaling 13,000 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Horicon is a complex of four refuges, Fox River with 1054 acres, Green Bay with 1620 acres, Gravel Island with 27 acres, and Horicon with 33000 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We certainly had a great day and got to see a lot of beautiful countryside. On the way up, John also stopped at a place where we could pick asparagus...which I love!!!</span></div>
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