Thanks for the good thoughts. Appreciating all of them.

As to eating brown tree snakes, they are all bones. They are the skinniest snakes I've ever seen. The one we caught must have been three feet long and was no more than 3/4 if an inch at it's thickest part. Need a lot of them to make a meal. Haven't heard any reports on taste.

Last night we had a hermit crab on the carport. It must have been 4 inches along the length of the shell. And it was fast! I finally cornered it and used the same charcoal tongs to move it out into the grass. The nippers on that sucker would have taken a chunk out of my finger and I only have one fully operational hand at this time.

I got the inside pictures of what they did to me but you'll have to go to Facebook to see them. I expect some disagreement with my posting the yucky pictures.

Back home they build possible snow days into the annual school schedule. Here they include "flex" days. If you have a day when the school has to be closed you use the next scheduled flex day. We were closed for Typhoon Vongfong (which just brushed by us) and now we have to come to school on the Friday after Thanksgiving. George Washington High School will also have to come in then plus they have to use their first day of Christmas vacation because they had to close due to a break-in and vandalism. Hoping we have no more closures.

Charley, I think it will still be a while until I can accurately move my fingers and before I will have any strength in them. Plus I have a similar but less advanced problem on my right side.