Thursday February 26, 2009

Wow! Another nice day. Fifty this morning and mid-seventies this afternoon. We were able to borrow another laptop this morning and finished entering all of the data for the Gumbo Limbo Hammock project. Prior to entering anything we had to count and weigh each bag of like items. There were a few things that we entered as one bag instead of counting each piece. One of these was the bag of snake vertebrates. We counted out 100 of them and weighed them. We then replaced that 100 in the bag and weighed the whole bag. This gave us the estimate - there were just over 8000 snake vertebrae in the bag! I will be seeing them in my sleep!!! Dave took a few more photos of the neatest things that we found and then we were done. We boxed everything up and Cat (the computer tech) will put the data base on the network so that it will be all set for Margo when she returns. We worked for Mike Russo (the bone expert) for a couple of hours this afternoon. We labeled shells and animal bones and put them into his collection. We stopped and gassed up the car for our trip tomorrow. When we got back to the motel, we ate some soup we had picked up the other day and then packed our suitcases. We put all of the things we don't need tonight into the trunk so that we won't have much to carry out tomorrow. Someone asked about Extreme Make Over. It seems that just the camera man is staying here and he never comes to breakfast early so we haven't seen him since the first day. According to the local TV news, the house will be finished tomorrow. We will have to catch the show when it comes out to see how it all came out.