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During ISV's Costa Rican adventure, volunteers get the chance to help endangered sea turtles.
This photo was taken by Alana Heilbig from Australia.
To sign up for a similar volunteer project abroad, visit www.isvolunteers.org today!
Well we have had a mild winter in Milwaukee until yesterday. We got hit with the blizzard. Now it's time to dig out. My husband keeps his snow blower in our neighbor's garage. Before he can use it, he has to dig through a snow drift to get to the garage door.
A sequence of the amazing solifug digging behaviour:
1- Turning a rock 5 times bigger and 20 times heavier;
2- For one the most powerful chelicerae in the animal kingdom biting a sandy rock is like having a muffin for breakfast;
3- The bitten rock is them passed under the body and pushed away through the back legs;
4- Shooing in more rock;
5- and shooing and using the suctorial ability of the palps to grab "small" rocks;
6- And them using the chelicerae as a shovel and pushing the rocky remains out;
Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
(This is Samuel, and he worked so hard for such a little guy! The sunglasses that were being passed around just didn't fit him!)
Raina and I take a moment to be cheesy after a morning of digging out the foundation. About halfway done! (thanks to Tessa and Jojo)
this place is a big place where digging for moclay is made for commercial purpose and the moclay is being used for cat-strey and for tiles inside the fireplace...
We are allowed to walk there and look for fossils and when we were there nobody were working...but trucks use to drive in and out on working days....
We buried a large amount of toy dinosaurs and creepy crawlies in this sand box and provided shovels for the kids to dig. Anything they dug up, they kept. Made for an interesting and slightly different party game :)
Digging in the Dirt by Peter Gabriel
"I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support"
I realize this might be a bit too literal, but it does show some elements of struggle.
Let's hope the hunt lasts til this evening for another night of even more wacky digging in the dark.
Sgt. Bovenchekov of the 39th Army Relief Corps whacks a wooden post into place with his shovel while Lance Corporal Korotney of the First Army puts in benches. (Both members of Unit K)