My Americorps Adventure: The tourists have arrived

There is a noticeable increase in the amount of cars on the road and coming across the bridge. And it took me almost twice as long to get home from Woods Hole today. Must be the start of tourist season. I can't wait until June. LOL. I have been very, very busy this past month. I can not believe that April is almost over. Every weekend for the past three weeks have been busy and the next few weekends are going to be busy, too. I went to Connecticut to have Easter with my Uncle and other family members. The weekend after that I drove back to Rochester to visit. Lots of fun and lots of good food. I think, I gained ten pounds in just those two weekends. This past weekend AmeriCorps had their huge annual Cape Cod Canal Clean-Up. There was more then 350 volunteers at this event and we picked up about 800 lbs of trash from along the canal. Several of my fellow members planned the whole event. Nice job guys!! The event went very smoothly. I had to work today and will have to work Saturday. I have service next Sunday. The weekend after that we are going to Boston and then I finally I will have a weekend with no plans. The last two weekends in May my family will be here visiting. I can't wait to see them. So, as you can see I have been keeping myself quite busy. Plus, I am trying to apply for jobs, which take up almost all my free time during the week.

As for service projects, we have not done anything that new. Here are some of the most recent projects.
~Helped Falmouth Service Center get their garden beds ready for planting
~Helped out with bird banning-We helped catch birds, tag them, and test them for bird flu.
~Did a few more cut and burns with the National Seashore, one which involved removing a ton of thorn bushes
~Helped with fire reduction

I guess that is about all. I am off to bed. I'll upload some pictures soon. Here are the pictures

Getting gardens ready for the summer