I'd say we're closing in on a pretty successful month.

This morning's trash collection included a large plastic bag of stuff I've held onto for way too long. Over the years as a park naturalist I picked up road kill to use for study skins. After skinning I salted or put borax on them, so they were green, never tanned. And years in the garage dried them out so much that they couldn't be tanned now even if I wanted to. I have a box of those chemicals that will go to the hazardous waste folks at the end of the week. I did keep a few interesting skulls, but one (an alligator gar) still had some dried meat on it so is sitting on an ant pile to see if they can clean it more. I'm not giving up my interest in being a naturalist, whether by employment or writing, but I am giving up hauling along samples. :)

Kat, I've been chuckling about your trash can. Maybe when he gets older Morgan will graduate down to a waste basket behind the seat.

A hammock sounds wonderful--but the flies and mosquitoes would make using one out-of-doors a misery down here by the creek.

SRS