Big doings in the Schools household yesterday. While riding bike yesterday morning Lise heard an alder flycatcher. That’s species number 300 this year for her, a new personal yearly high since we started keeping yearly records. Her count was helped significantly by our January excursion to Costa Rica, which gave us both a number of lifers. Her new high is indicative of effort and diligence on her part, and with a couple months left in the year will be going even higher.
Lise in Costa Rica
Blue-gray tanager on pink flowers.
Unknown hummingbird. (Need to find my Costa Rica field guide)
Nauyaca Falls in Costa Rica. Even if you don’t get new birds, how can you not like the place?
The other notable event yesterday was Molly coming home from her internship. She spent eight weeks at Oklahoma State in Stillwater OK, doing animal behavior research. And she has a poster with statistically significant results to show for her efforts. Along with Molly we also got her boyfriend Mitchell, who is in between apartments right now.
I have been working through the mountain of little things that have piled up on me the past year or so. Yesterday I worked through the stack of magazines I have been wanting to read for the past couple months. When I was working I would read them while commuting on the bus. It would take a couple weeks to get through a single magazine. Knocked them all off in one pleasurable afternoon of reading yesterday. Today will be making a batch of beer, doing some photo organizing, working through the pile of stuff on my desk, and probably at least one household job. Maybe have some for planning the next adventure too. A boy’s gotta dream.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 