Unseasonably warm weather the last few days, with highs in the low 80's. All sorts of flowers are opening up all over. The second picture is of Kris singing "There's a Place for Us" from West Side Story at her last voice lesson on Friday. On Saturday I spent most of the day proctoring a national screening exam to try to qualify a couple students for the international Chemistry Olympiad. That evening I mowed our lawn for the first time and noticed 2 things: 1) there are lot of dandelions in our yard, and 2) there is a lot of moss in the yard (maybe because we have had such a cool, wet spring?) This morning after Sunday school I was fossil hunting along a local creek bed, and a crayfish walked up and tried to crawl under my boot. I was standing still; it must have thought I was a rock! When got home I was breaking up a rock looking for marine fossils like criniods and I found my first trilobite! (A crab-like creature...actually this is only the tail, so I guess it is really a trilo-butt.) I've been looking for one for 3 decades, and it has been a thorn in my side not to find the state fossil of Wisconsin! There was a chemistry department picnic this afternoon, but in addition to that we tilled the garden and got some planting done (and now I am stiff). Last full week of classes this coming week! 
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