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The Outdoor Education season has officially begun with the arrival of eight new staff to begin their transformation into Outdoor Education Gurus. They bring with them an array of skill and talents that gives them a head start on the road to Gurudom. We start Monday morning and plan on spending the day taking a big hike around getting to know our classroom, so expect some pictures soon.

Spring Clean

We have promised a new Spring look for The Electric Spectacle, and it will happen, but we have had a few more pressing things to do. A couple of days ago we decided it was time to give Rafiki and Nala's sleeping area a Spring clean. Over the winter we used a deep litter system, to keep the pigs warm. This involves adding clean bedding regularly without clearing out the old stuff. The old stuff underneath starts to decompose and give off some warmth. It did the trick but meant we had a lot of shoveling to do. Here is a picture of the nice clean bedding and the old stuff that we piled on the compost heap.

Pinkletinks

This weekend the Spring Peepers came to life on camp. Spring Peepers are a small frog, called Pinkletinks on Martha's Vineyard. They "spring" (sorry) to life in March and April, whenever we get the first warm rain, and they meet up in pools to mate and lay eggs. You can read more about them here or here. There isn't a good place for them to hang out at Burgess because they like pools with not many fish. The swamp at Hayward is a good place to hear them and they also like the vernal pool near Kitteridge (not far from High Ropes). They'll still be making noise during summer camp if you want to hear them.