Tonight I presented a dehydrating seminar at Pack & Paddle in Lafayette, Louisiana. It was a lot of fun to prepare things for the class, but I felt a bit disorganized in the presentation. I should have thought things through a bit more before talking to 35 or so people about how to prepare dehydrated foods for wilderness adventures (or for hurricane preparedness).
Too late now. The class is over, and I hope some folks learned some things they didn't know before tonight.
A new website has been created to help alumni from my high school get back in touch with each other. Through this website, I found an old friend, A.J., who lives near Lafayette with his wife, Lori. Knowing I was doing a class in Lafayette, they decided to wander over for a visit. Even though they don't really do too much in the way of outdoorsy things. We didn't get to visit much since I had this class to do, but it was good to see them anyway. Here's hoping that another 20 years won't go by before we have the chance to visit again.
Two O'Clock Bayou meanders through moss-laden cypress trees full of gigantic golden silk spiders, or so people know them as banana spiders around here. There were also lots of egrets, a couple of herons, and a few others birds I couldn't identify, all amongst the stunning metalic blue dragonflies. I only saw one snake, but - unfortunately - no alligators.
