Well, I wouldn't be surprised if no one reads this anymore. It's been almost TWO MONTHS since I updated this thing. I'm very sorry :( but those two months were the busiest of my field season, and now field work is officially done!! It would be insane to try and recap two months in this post, so I'll satisfy myself with a highlights reel followed by links to public photo albums, and a promise to now resume regular updates. Even though exciting things are over. Whatever! I'll put it on here, mundane or not :)
Highlights Reel:
- I got a GIANT F150 XRT crew cab truck rented so I didn't have to do that signing-out-a-pool-vehicle madness...which was way too big for what I needed but was all they had and I loved it and promptly named it the Tardis
- counts, counts, more counts
- saw Orchard Oriole on three separate sites :D rare buggers around here
- some wicked storms here; once there were 35 lightning flashes a minute for 15 minutes!!
- heat wave arrived, and is still ongoing. hovers around 35 every day
- goldfinches popped up out of nowhere on my counts and I thought I was crazy until I learned they don't start breeding until very late because they time it with the thistles going to seed - cool!!
- I've been baking more often...rice bread then corn bread, chapatis, more recently chocolate cake and chickpea biscuits
- dragged a dead deer off the road at 4:45 am, and had people stop to see if it was fresh enough to eat :s blergh maybe I'm a naive east coaster but blerrrggghh
- I've been to see Horrible Bosses (awesome!!), Transformers 3 (ennnhh but was nice air conditioning out of the heat), Harry Potter 7.2 (great, but sad they're over)
- Mary-FREAKIN'-Claire appeared suddenly in Lindsay so I took the Tardis and met her and her wonderful grandmother for supper :D
- parents and Brenna came to visit :D no Emily = sad :c but had a fantastic time, lived out of a hotel with them for a week and did touristy things like the zoo, and a couple provincial parks, and ate more bad-for-me food than I have all summer because we went to all these great restaurants :)
- joined Google+...I think it will be better than Facebook (yikes...don't strike me, FB-lightning) but needs many more people in there before that can happen
- Minnesota is back with me :3 yay burrrd. we shared muffin bits today.
- discovered this amazingly funny blog called Hyperbole and a Half; you need to go right now and check it out. I hope she never ever reads this blog because it is so sad in comparison, and I don't pay nearly enough attention to things like grammar and punctuation and the use of caps lock :/ but seriously, go: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
Picture Links:
These will take you to the public versions of my facebook photo albums :)
Pics from June (there are new ones)
Pics from July
Pics from Mary-Claire visit
Pics from family visit
Whew. That's all for now. Should be some entertaining updates on the way - I'm going to a karaoke bar on Wednesday....
Still nerdy, still birdy.
<3 Sarah
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