I’m so confused. Yesterday I presented on beavers to the ContraCosta Fish and Wildlife Committee. They have been staunch supporters of the festival for years, so I was thrilled to be invited. The talk went well. Technology went well and I remembered all my lines. I even hearsdj some appreciative laughs.
Then I finished and opened for questions and the chair said, “I couldn’t believe Martinez spent all that money and that thing just blew out and floated away.”
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Meaning, our flow device. Which I just finished saying worked for ten years and saved us money. That failed.
I was pretty surprised and not sure I heard him right. “What? I didn’t quite hear that?”
To which he repeated “that wasted money on the thing which just blew out and didn’t work”.
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And I was stunned. What had he heard? And from whom.? If he had heard something that made him think I was lying why give the festival grants year after year? Why give funds to liars for festivals?
I said that when it’s was first installed it blew out and the next morning staff had helped Skip stake it in firmer, and that in one storm years later the filter had come lose and a citizen retrieved it and staff reinstalled it. But that truly it had worked and done its job for a decade, as he could see by that photo of the beaver next to the pipe which was taken by Suzi Eszterhas the photographer from Ranger Rick magazine in 2015.
He didn’t say anything else.
I’m so confused.
