día de los muertos (tiburón y pájaro)

Yeah that's right, I got to dissect a shark at work today (bird was a gift/threat from our campground cat, but the shark washed up on S. Cove). It was a little baby salmon shark, probably 2.5-3 feet long. There were no obvious injuries, and it had fish vertebrae in its stomach, so we don't know why it died. It was cool though, sharks are amazing!

This weekend we worked on the concrete path around the garage in the back yard. We used a mixer & poured cement into a mold which made it into individual bricks. I had the job of packing & smoothing the bricks, and I also did my share of lugging sand & gravel to the mixer. The bricks are a wide variety of shades, unfortunately, and we ran completely out of red coloring by the end, so I'm switching a few around every day to try to make it a bit more blended. I'll put up a picture soon. I know I promised that about my knitting too, so here you go, my 2 anemones (w/ and w/o crab)

and the latest progress on my super-slow sweater:


Tomorrow is my last program of the summer, I'm trying out my new animal tracks (CSI- creature sign investigation) program, but I kind of hope nobody shows up. We've been having pretty bad attendance since the holiday- school started again, and there are no kids at all in camp. Even our all-ages programs have been getting nearly no one, I had one lady on my last tidepool walk. It's sad that it's the end of the summer already, our volunteers have already taken off. Oh well, at least I'm already getting sub work lined up here & there for the next couple months.

The garden is doing well, still putting out occasional peas & lettuce, but now the tomatoes are ripening as well! I'm going to make a savory tart with some of the cherry tomatoes. I'll have to figure out something good to do with the pumpkins.

The tea party last week was awesome. I'll get photos from my coworker & write more about it later. Eh, I had a lot more to write, but I need to go to bed now!