normal weather for now

It's finally cooled off a lot, back to 50's and light rain...like a good summer day in Haines. Inspiring enough to get back to the bead table where this fine gentleman waits for me. He's a scientific replica of an adult male skull I got ages ago in Ketchikan at the Ray Troll store. I was still working on the tour boats at the time so 130 bucks for a life sized skull didn't seem outrageous. He's been my traveling companion for a bunch of moves in and out of storage and various houses and apartments but I still haven't given him a name.

The new bead project is a smaller fish called a stickleback. A 3 spined stickleback to be precise. When the tide is really high, parts of the golf course where we walk most days floods and these wee fish get washed up in to the grass. There was one in a shrinking puddle one day, I either gave him a heart attack or he survived the sweaty-palmed run from the puddle to the stream. I have this idea that he was a little shook up when he hit the water and totally confused as to how he ended up in that stream instead of the one he came from!