Small Victories

Back to early spring weather in Indiana today! Went to bed with the bedroom window open and a fan in front of it. Sometime in the wee hours, I noticed that there was COLD air coming through that window! We'll be back to the 70s by the weekend, and I'm glad. I was really getting used to the delightful temps!

I got a couple of things accomplished yesterday that have been hanging over my head. I mowed the back yard and arranged to have the front done (because I'm lazy). With my daughter's help, I was able to get the Easter pictures out of the digital camera. (I'm new at this.) I worked on cleaning my bedroom, which has been an on-going project for the past two years. Today, I got the various stacks of clean clothes from the trip to the proper bedrooms. Progress!

The children will be here next weekend. I'll be planning non-physical activities for them because of Ryan's restrictions. I think we'll go to a movie and maybe find a computer game that Ryan likes. I'm not sure how he can play with Jack and still maintain his restrictions. Has to be supervised, for sure!

Oh! Did I mention that we resolved a California mystery? Robin picked up a dead something on the beach in CA that defied description and recognition. It smelled pretty fishy but didn't look like anything I had ever seen before. We put it in a plastic bag and brought it home to Meg's...and put it on the balcony. We took pictures. Unfortunately, by the next day, it was putrefying and smelling pretty bad...so we discarded it...but were still dying of curiosity as to what it was. When I came home to Indiana, I emailed the pictures off to a professor friend of mine in the Biology Department of Auburn University to ask if anyone on the faculty could recognize it. (Unfortunately, the pix weren't particularly good, and we had failed to photograph the under side of the thing.) Within a few days, two of Jim's friends had proffered guesses. I discarded two of the guesses because I was somewhat familiar with what they had suggested...but one guess caused me to look it up on the Internet...and BINGO! Gumboot Chiton! Mystery solved! I'd never heard of the things before!