Carlos had a good tournament. He's a senior, but this is just his first year to wrestle. We needed some big guys, so after football he came out for the team. I wish I had had him for four years because he has come a long ways. |
He wrestled really well. But tomorrow is going to be a big match. |
I have great hopes because it's something that just about anybody can do, especially parents with children because kids get to see a wild bird nest and develop. I guarantee you don't forget that in your entire life. |
I work them pretty hard. It's hard to push like this and not have success, and I wouldn't be able to push them like this if they weren't being successful. They're starting to see the rewards of the hard work. |
If he hadn't gotten hurt, he probably would have placed third in the tournament. But when he went down, he hit his elbow wrong. It's such a bad deal ... but we're hoping. |
It's a pretty tough tournament. I was wanting to get in another tough tournament to see where we are. Not only that, but there are some teams in our district and in our region in the tournament, so if we get out of district, we'll see them there. |
Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not feed them. |
Overall, we did pretty well. But (today) is when we'll really find out how we're doing because it's about to get really tough. |
The Friends cannot take all the credit. It's a shared award. |
They're an endanger species that has been reintroduced by the DNR (Department of Natural Resources). They were noticeably absent in the state for several decades ... They're coming back nicely. |
This was the best that Matt has wrestled all year. He's looking real good. |
We didn't even realize such an award existed. It's nice to be recognized by the governor himself. We're a small group, but we did a pretty important job, we think. |
We just didn't wrestle very well. We had a lot of guys who were winning but then got pinned. |
We just need to keep it going for two more weeks. I just hope we're not peaking too early. |
We'll show people where to place the nest boxes, the kind of nest boxes to use and the protection to put on the mounting posts for the boxes. |