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May 1, 2005
MORE BABY PICS.!
AH! SUNDAY! Time to relax and catch up on odds and ends like a pile of stuff for my blog!
I have more photos to scan of Guin when she was younger so I have a job there and will get my Photo Gallery going A.S.A.P.
It is still snowing here! Yuk! After having that glorious warm week we all feel let down!
Here's one for the kids--did you know that the Platypus--that strange creature which is only found in Australia, is very unique. It is covered in fur, has a duck's bill, and webbed feet. Its tail is similar to that of a beaver,which is used to store fat for when food is scarce. It's a mammal yet it lays eggs! When a platypus was first taken to Britain in the 1700's people thought someone had sown a duck's bill onto a mammal's body as a practical joke (from the Free Press) The male platypus has poisonous spurs on his hind legs, making it the world's only venomous furred creature!
There are plans to raise a mysterious Japanese submarine. The I-52 was sunk in the Atlantic in 1944 , The expedition to raise it will be in Nov. or May 2006. It was laden with gold--2 tons and 2 tons of opium. They also wonder if it contains a secret offer of peace. There are no web sites given in the article but I think Dad was researching it the other day.
Reader's Digest has just published a revised edition of "The Most Scenic drives in America".
Besides the famous site at Drumheller well known for its fossil bones--where Alan and girls visited last summer--there is also a marine fossil museum in Morden, Manitoba. It has the largest collection of marine fossils in Canada. A 13 metre long mosaasaur was unearthed in 1974. Its skull measured over 1.5 metres in length! Might be worth a side trip if you go to Manitoba!
Time for my lunch! Back later!! xoxoxo
Posted by Cas at May 1, 2005 12:05 PM
Comments
Daw, I'm so cute! 
Really interesting facts you posted mom!
Posted by: Guinevere at May 1, 2005 3:37 PM
Daw, Guin you
should of been a
super star when u were
a lil baby!! 
Posted by: Stephanie at May 1, 2005 6:02 PM
she still is a superstar!! Just like you Steph!
Posted by: Brad at May 2, 2005 8:06 PM