The snake progresses. I am up to pink stripe 5 out of 10. It's sort of fun to see the thing develop even though there are going to be a lot of blasted ends to deal with when he's done.

I forget how happy making toys makes me. Even if they're just mascots for me.

Finished (as much as I can to this point) writing the second of two papers, emailed it to my co-author. I also trimmed the hedges today and weeded my back garden. And sawed some dead limbs off the redbud tree, and sacrificed a live (barely) limb that kept smacking me in the head every time I would mow or work in the garden.

I don't know what updating will be like in the coming week as I am scheduled for jury duty. My friend the assistant DA (which may also be my ticket out of it - when they find I know the assistant DA) said bringing knitting in was ok, no one would mind. I'm going to go with big fat wooden needles though (I have a simple purse kit on size 11s I can do), so I look less kooky and threatening.

She also said she "doubted" they would need jurors until Tuesday, so I may get an extra day, which will probably be spent in the library looking for articles about old-field succession (the topic of the current paper).