{"id":168,"date":"2014-09-24T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/2014\/09\/24\/airplanes-animals\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:23:58","slug":"airplanes-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/2014\/09\/airplanes-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Airplanes + Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a busy<\/i> week around the center! I definitely did not think I would have this much to do around here. It will peter off a bit after this week, but there’s still plenty of excitement around here.<\/p>\n

There are several projects that I’m working on with some of the staff here, and it keeps me busy, for sure. I’m doing a lot of correspondence with various fields, and sifting through a lot of information and photographs. It’s definitely work, but I’m loving it!<\/i><\/p>\n

Absolute the most exciting news around here lately, though, is this: KODIAK #2 HAS ARRIVED! Yesterday afternoon our chief pilot and chief of operations landed on our airstrip with the brand new airplane. It’s literally a flying answer to millions of prayers and years of waiting.<\/b> This makes 2 of the 3 <\/i><\/b>Kodiaks that we need for the entire field of Papua New Guinea. Know anybody who has about $2.9 million and want to use it to get the last Kodiak to PNG? Just kidding …but seriously<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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This weekend is the county fair<\/i>, and NTMAviation has a booth there for the first time. Josh and I are signed up to help man the booth for a night. If anyone asks me a technical question, I won’t know the answer, but I can smile and be excited about stuff like new airplanes, more pilots\/mechanics, and expanding the reach of the Gospel!<\/p>\n

I’ve kind of become known around here as the local wildlife spotter<\/i>, and then sharing their pictures on social media. Several ladies walk in the morning, and since I’ve joined them, I have spotted several owls<\/b>, a couple of deer<\/b>, and more rabbits<\/b> than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, I have yet to get any pictures of the owls, but here are some of the other creatures I’ve found!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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L to R, clockwise: a tarantula, an escaped crawdad, a pregnant praying mantis, a baby hognose snake.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This does not include the four and a half foot green mojave rattlesnake<\/b> that we found in our first week while camping. Or the mice<\/b> that live in the cactus outside my carport. I’m telling ya, I’m a pro at this animal stuff. I wonder if they give out medals…<\/p>\n

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