Back to Work

We went to Walmart at Kill Devil Hills Monday and stopped at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge visitor center in Manteo on the way there. We can move to their refuge for February if we want, and decided to drive to the area where they’ve got the RV volunteers parked. It’s an area surrounded by an electric fence (to keep the bears out), along with a small building with showers, kitchen and laundry room. One thing we didn’t like about it is their water is not potable. You have to go to their maintenance area five miles away to get 5 gallon water jugs. On the days you work, you drive to the maintenance area with your personal vehicle, pick up one of their Federal pickups and drive another 10 miles to the visitor center. When we got back to Mattamuskeet we stopped in and talked to Debbie and told her where we had been, and she told us she had someone cancel for February through August, so we could stay here until September if we wanted!  I laughed and told her we want to go north for the summer. Funny how things work.

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The government shutdown only lasted three days. We worked some extra hours this week as Leslie was gone two days, and we’re working our weekend as usual. Mary, from Visitor Services, came one of the mornings so I went in to go over the gift shop inventory with her. She is in charge of the gift shops for Alligator River, Pea Island, Pocosin and Mattamuskeet. Curt cleaned out the rain gutters and fixed some leaks. It’s suppose to rain Sunday, we’ll see if it worked.