Marine Mammal Day Dos

...and we're caught up! This has to be a quick one because I'm out of time, but I don't want to save this as a draft and then find it two weeks later, because we know that's what will happen. So, briefly:

- Danny felt horribly about recent failed whale-watching excursion; wanted to show Jack charismatic sea-fauna

- Danny found out Pt Reyes hosts elephant seals that you don't have to pay and/or make advance reservations to see

- Our chicks Sweetie and Tweetie have grown so big they needed to be put outside, which means we needed to get rid of one of our three older chickens

- We decided we don't have time to slaughter and butcher a chicken -- seriously, what were we thinking?

- Danny's boss offered to let us put one of our birds out to pasture (... literally. On his pasture. So now she lays eggs professionally!)

- Said pasture is conveniently located in Pt Reyes, where you don't have to pay and/or make advance reservations to see elephant seals in order to redeem yourself in the eyes of your three-year-old

- The perfect way to spend a Saturday in February: