If I Could Do a Job for a Day

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

The first thing I thought of on this topic is something I’d probably do for many, many days. I’d like to work at a State Park as a nature interpreter and do guided hikes to help people see what they don’t realize is all around them.

Look! A baby ladybug!

I have to admit it. Most of this blog is me doing just that.

Look, a sad ground crab spider, purportedly!

Well, it’s my blog, so I might as well do what I enjoy. I’m sure you’d rather read about birds and butterflies than about my self confidence issues and internal struggles, of which there are many right now. Zzzzz.

Look! An ugly mushroom!

The best Nature news today is that it didn’t rain much. Maybe some of the water can head down to the aquifer. After removing much mud and hair, I tried to walk Apache some today, but everywhere we went had standing water. But, hey, we walked briskly and he was fine with it! He’s better at last!

No horse picture, so look! A green heron!

Same deal with Drew, sans grooming, but we at least spent time together and bonded. He bonked his head on mine in an unfortunate gate/wind incident, but we both handled it well. He did get Fiona’s leftovers out of the deal. She didn’t eat because I’d wormed her. Everyone else took the wormer just fine.

Look! Something shaped like a worm! It’s a checkered white caterpillar. Those guys have been busy.

I thought I’d share with you what I encountered after getting the mail today. Dozens of snout butterflies. The soundtrack is dickcissels.

A few butterflies

And that’s it for today. I hope we all get to do our dream job, at least for a day.

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Author: Sue Ann (Suna) Kendall

The person behind The Hermits' Rest blog and many others. I'm a certified Texas Master Naturalist and love the nature of Milam County. I manage technical writers in Austin, help with Hearts Homes and Hands, a personal assistance service, in Cameron, and serve on three nonprofit boards. You may know me from La Leche League, knitting, iNaturalist, or Facebook. I'm interested in ALL of you!

8 thoughts on “If I Could Do a Job for a Day”

      1. You could have a you tube channel of nature asmr,  those channels are very popular. 

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      2. True. I do have a YouTube channel. I’m not sure what asmr is but I assume it means videos?

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      3. Asmr is a technique to calm people or help them sleep.

        Related to the whole area of face, body message, sound therapy

        Cosmic head scratching , etc. You could use trees, ground, bugs

        Flowers, crunchy sounds, you would just be good at it, it can be

        Totally no talking or wispering, I will send some videos

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  2. Agree. Like Female Rangers at the National Parks have always impressed me as we hiked and climbed. One that we ran across was busy kindly ordering a young group not to fly drones…

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    1. There was a really annoying one at a state park I was at recently. All that buzzing drowning out the nature sounds!

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