Pictures

 Well, we took a walk Sunday (and with the heat dome incoming, it might be our last for a while), and though there was almost nobody out, man nor beast, here's how it went:

Mostly cloudy, warm, muggy

No socceristas, except a dad and his son

Only beast until we were almost home

We're naming our new discovery, "birdpoop mold"

We scared Mama and ducklings under the bridge

One disc golfer (who thought he hit us) was all we saw until we got to the river.  There an older gentleman was fishing.  I asked him if he was having any luck, he said, "I jus' got set up, had to catch some beers first, ha ha!" The trip back home was uneventful until...

Misty finds a turtle crossing the sidewalk!

We usually see these at the side of our building...

Now, some notes about Squirrel...

"And it's about time!"

When Laurie revamped the stand over her case, I came up with the idea of crafting the plain out.  This is my, now finished side...

I wanted to go with "geckos in ancient cultures".  The top is the Egyptian hieroglyph for a gecko; the second has a story.  The lady is a demigoddess named Hi'iaka, and she's on a mission for her boss, the goddess Pele.  Along the way, she stops at a place called Makua, where the home folks celebrate the visit by jumping off a cliff into a pool.  One girl missed and hit a rock, and Hi'iaka resurrected her as a gecko-spirit, or Mo'o.

Third is a Portuguese good luck ('Boa Sorte') gecko in ceramic; the bottom symbol, your guess is as good as mine.

Laurie's not quite finished side:

The only explanation here:  Stormy is her official, picked by the grandkids, name ( trying to match her up with Misty in a meteorlogical sense); Squirrel is what most of us actually call her, a trick I used to do with my dwarf hamsters back in the day.  I'll get y'all a better shot of it when it's finished.