Day Fourteen – Catching Lizards and Dodging Thunderstorms

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I really enjoyed my research this morning.  I had to capture some anoles (lizards) and measure their length and weigh them.  Actually, I had to measure their mass…a little different than weight, but not that important here.  They are fast little buggers! Several of them escaped my grasp and led me on a loose-lizard chase. I got my workout early.  And they bite!  Not hard (more like a pinch) but they’re like snapping turtles–they don’t want to turn loose ’til it thunders! Could have used these storms earlier.

Then I decided this evening to look for some home-style cooking.  I found a little place way out of town called Mom’s Place.  Good reviews…so I jumped in my truck (figuratively speaking) and fired it up…or rather, I tried to fire it up–dead battery. Pooh! (That’s not exactly the word I used, but you get the drift.)  So I went back to the dorm room, checked online for AAA, and called for assistance.  Glad I signed up before my trip!  As I was locking my room door, the fire alarm went off!  Once I got back to the parking lot, police started arriving from several directions.  After checking the main box, they determined that an alarm had been pulled on our floor. I didn’t see anyone, but there are some middle school kids enrolled in a camp staying on this floor…don’t even get me started on that! AAA finally arrived, boosted my truck, and I barely got to the diner before they closed at 7:00 for my weekly complement of grease…good, home-style cooking, just like they said.  If there had been some onions in the squash, it would have been perfect!

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