Mario added a lovely Egret yesterday. Can’t wait to see where he’ll take our bridge today! Oh, and the pretend paper in Martinez wrote a pretend story about the beavers and the mural and got the location wrong, the videographer wrong, and maybe the date wrong. But hey, they say there’s no bad publicity right?
Yesterday there was an sudden flurry of wonderful developments reminding us all that the ninth beaver festival isn’t really far away. First Mike Warner of Wildbryde sent this on our upcoming charm bracelet to teach the ecosystem engineer concept. Isn’t it lovely?
Really, All Aboard is going to be such an awesome teaching activity that I should have interested exhibits APPLY for the opportunity to participate! Those bracelets are going to be very popular and by August 7th everyone will know why beaver is considered an ‘Ecosystem engineer”.
I was even more excited about these, however, which owes credit to Erika for the slogan, Beaver Believer’s for the idea of doing a kids shirt, and our long lost volunteer Libby Corliss for her awesome silhouettes from Cheryl’s photos. Oh and Heidi for figuring out how to make them hollow with outlines!
Is that cute or is that CUTE? We got 40 in assorted Youth sizes from XL to XS. (It is all I can do to keep from putting them on the dog.) Historically we have offered adult shirts for a 20 donation, so that suggests 15 would carry a child shirt? But shirts are more expensive than they were 10 years ago and they cost us 8 to make. I know these would sell, but it breaks my heart to think of Worth A Dam only getting a couple bucks for each adorable shirt when I consider that the festival is free and the bracelets are and both cost us lots of $$. Maybe I can find a donor to cover the shirt cost, and then happily offer them for 15? Wish me happy hunting.
I’m just about ready for Portland, with my hour long talk for the ballroom and a short recap for the worker bees at Clean Water Services the next morning. We have reservations along the way and hopefully can do some sightseeing in between preaching beaver gospel and networking with beaver friends. We’ll finish off with a few days by the foggy coast to rest before heading home to see our exciting mural progress and the buckle down to festival planning in earnest in June!
June! Can it be approaching already? Mais où sont les neiges d’antan ?
