All Hail, April

A bit of hail this morning. It was rather a rather cold 38 degrees when I got in my car this morning. No wonder it was so hard to get out of my warm bed. We're supposed to get a few feet in the mountains today. What month is it anyway?

Stopping by Yahoo this morning I discovered this article about a new species of monitor lizard that was just discovered in the Philippines. I love monitor lizards, and particularly the largest species, the Komodo Dragon. They seem to be the closest thing we have to living dinosaurs left. So neat!

jP

How Did That Get *There*?

From today's Seattle Times: "Around the Northwest"

"A Kelso man walking his dog found a small black cylinder with a yellow and red stripe. The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office says it turned out to be an undetonated Japanese mortar shell from the 1930's.

The man said he found the device in a field near the Kelso airport Thursday evening. Authorities called in an ordnance-disposal unit from Fort Lewis, which took the shell to a safe area and detonated it early Friday."

Wild.

Jp