Catching Up!

I'm catching up, you see. I've been too busy to blog, with good reason! After attending a lecture about the Pascagoula River Audubon Center, I began to volunteer there the very next week. Mark LaSalle and Mozart DeDeaux have been kind enough to let a naturalist wannabe come and work and learn. Not one day has been a disappointment, well, to me that is. I would guess that cutting off Dan Brooks, who owns the Moss Point Oaks Bed and Breakfast, when he called on my first day there was not a high point. Really, I usually do know how to put a phone on hold. Perhaps they wondered who they'd allowed access to the center?? But, they were ever so kind, Dan Brooks included, to this nearly 50 year-old (ugh, 50?) living out a lifetime dream of nature up close.

Whether it's helping George Hanson glue an alligator's skull back together (yes, the alligator was deceased), Paul Doyle's teasing me about washing those dishes again, hearing Captain Benny McCoy tell about the day's sightings on the river tour, or being amazed at the stories that Mark and Mozart tell about the critters like Mrs. Salt Marsh Snake (who lives at the center and had her babies there), I am never bored. I am simply eternally grateful to be there.