First of all, check out this Sleepytime Gorilla Museum video. It's entertaining!

At work today, I witnessd the old office come crashing to the ground with the aid of some heavy duty construction (shouldn't that be "destruction?") equipment. They also took out the front walkway, several trees, and a couple of hedges, leaving an expanse of wasteland bordered by temporary fences festooned with signs warning visitors against entering without proper headgear. This is the first physical indication that the new lodge is being built. It has been a long process sorting out the funds and the various permits to get to this stage. Now we just have to cope with the fences, noise, and dust for awhile.

As for the kids, I took a bunch of them on a critter hunt, during which we found a couple of Western Skinks, lots of Alligator lizards, and the same Rattlesnake I came across a couple of weeks ago. Last week, due to the heat, most of the reptiles were nowhere to be seen. Now they're back. You know it's too hot when the reptiles are hiding. This week temperatures are in the seventies. Let's hope they stay there.

Also, we started bringing Duckweed and Elodia into the garden at work to use as compost. Tomorrow, if I remember, I'm going to get some worms out of the worm bin in the garden and bring them home so we can start composting here. Maybe we can use the soil we make to actually get some things to grow in our yard.