Erica

Summer Internship

06 - June

Laura is doing her summer internship work for her degree program at the MU Raptor Rehabilitation Project. She gets to help rehab injured raptors while learning how to care for raptors. She also is participating in different educational experiences with the education ambassador birds. Today, she was at Cooper’s Landing for one of those experiences. Laura is really enjoying herself, and she even gets to work with her best friend, Annabelle! I think this summer will really benefit Laura in making the ultimate decision regarding career specialization.

Erica

Bike Ride

06 - June

I took another bike ride on the Katy Trail today, but this time I headed the other way and ended up just past Cooper’s Landing at mile marker 163. I am slowly getting back on the bike.

Erica

Scenes from a Birthday Ride

05 - May

It was a beautiful day to ride my bike on the Katy Trail. Andy and I rode to Rocheport for lunch at Meriwether Cafe. Andy had to leave right after we ate because he had an afternoon meeting, so I took my time getting back to McBaine. I stopped and enjoyed the Missouri River.

I took a picture of this turtle.

Finally, I admired the Big Tree and the blue sky.

It was the perfect day for a birthday bike ride. Happy 52nd Birthday to me!

Erica

Bottling Day

05 - May

We spent the day at Musket Cellars & Vineyard helping to bottle their next round of wines.

There were about 15 people there helping with the process, and it was so interesting to watch everything. A company that works with about 60 different wineries here in the midwest brings a mobile bottling trailer to the winery. After volunteers place the empty bottles on the line, the bottles are moved to the filling station and through the label station. Then, the volunteers would package, seal, and stack the full cases of wine.

Laura went with us to help and she really enjoyed the day as well.

By the end, we had worked for 6 1/2 hours, totaling nearly 10,000 bottles of wine.

We wrapped up our time at the winery enjoying some of the new types of wine that were added to the line. As always, the wine was excellent, and we came home with a case of the new wines.

We worked hard and we were tired afterwards, but we will definitely help again. It was such a fun experience!