beach?

Today was a fabulous day of work, involving floaties and measuring the depth of a pond on a property that we had to hike out to.  Then lunch at the beach and a quick swim (to get all of the pond scum off) and then back to south lake to take ground water readings at another project site....but unfortunatly I took no pictures during all of that SO you get photos of the beach where my roomy and I rode our bikes after work:

I love that this is a 5 minute bike ride from my house.  Tahoe is Awesome.

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Project Tour

Today at work I spent the latter part of the day on a project tour, looking at upcoming and completed project sites.  This picture is a successful restoration project; the creek you can see had been diverted when a sewer line was installed in the meadow.  The water pooled around the manholes and created such a draw that it dried out the whole meadow.  This channel was completely constructed and has raised ground water levels and restored the meadow to its original moisture content and therefore vegetation, habitat, and hydrology.  Very cool!

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big day

today was a big day: at work i did rapid stream assessments and hiked cascade creek from 89 down to Tahoe in an effort to locate any unhealthy areas that might need attention.  Then after work I bought a craigslist cheapo mountain bike (not awesome, but far better than what i had).  And then, while we were in the garage playing with my new bike i looked out across the street and saw first a coyote and then my first Tahoe bear.  He was slinking across the neighbors yard, right across the street!  Silly boy didn't notice that the neighbor was sitting in his chair in his driveway, not 10 feet from the bear.  When I said "is that a bear?" to my roommate he turned around, jumped up, and chased the big lug off his property and up a tree in the vacant lot next to his house.  Sadly I didn't get a picture of the bear or the coyote, but I did take this one at work:

and its alright i guess....not a bear or anything though...

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resto crew

Today I worked with the restoration crew all day at work.  I really liked working with a crew; the crew leader figured everything out and told us what to do and where to be and it was a wonderful departure from our normal work existence of frantically trying to get way way too much work into one day.  Plus...we built this fence!  

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sushi sunday

Sushi night!  Yay!  Caterpillar roll.  Good stuff.

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life is a beach

I spent today at the beach, putting on buckets of sunscreen and still accidentally getting sunburnt.  Here it is, Nevada Beach, Stateline, NV.

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jello

this about sums up tonight, and why i'm not updating this until 4:30 am, and everything.  Jello.  Shots.  Goodnight!

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