Thursday, June 29, 2017

Not too much going on around La Casa Schools. I’ve been
painting the basement and Little Hands is still the president, making our
country look like a banana republic. Pretty quick fall from the leader of the
free world to the laughingstock of the world. Can it get any worse? Probably,
and he’s the person to lead us there. Pathetic.

We were in Bloomington and West Lafayette last weekend. Lise
had to go to Bloomington for some project related work. The project is doing
signs for what was a Monon Railroad switchyard that is being converted into a
recreation area. She met with a gentleman that has a collection of over 10,000
Monon Railroad pictures. He spent a whole career on the Monon Line and had some
great stories. He knew many of the people in the pictures, and nuances of the
pictures that are going to be lost to history when he passes on. It was an
interesting afternoon. And I got to take pictures of a pipe.

Buried stream outflow into Clear Creek.

After Bloomington, we hopped up to West Lafayette for a
couple of nights. Quite unexpectedly we got a whip-poor-will in Sue’s backyard.
That brings me to 238 species for the year and Lise to 230. Finally got out to
do some dragonfly pictures too, at Prophetstown State Park.