582.00 in outstanding auction items have now been collected by folks who won their bids but didn’t collect t
hat day. We have two more today, two to mail, one on thursday and two on friday and then we’re done. DONE. Hurray!
Just in time for the Beaver Mania event conference call on friday and Jon’s very much anticipated birthday! He deserves a day of treats and rewards don’t you think because he worked so hard for the festival. 
Aside from hauling, moving, and nailing down everything, his tours were very well attended and broadly appreciated.
I finally went through most of Cheryl’s photos from the day, and thought I’d share a little about our awesome exhibitors this year. Ann Riley wrote appreciatively
” I am impressed that you got seemingly all the urban environmental-wildlife groups in one place. Don’t know of another
event like that. So congrats on a class act.”
which coming from the author of this newly published work I will take as high praise indeed! Here are a few of our many wonderful exhibitors and what they had to offer for the day.
Lots to see and do that’s for sure! I’m just happy I got my computer desktop cleared off of all the details and contracts I wasn’t supposed to forget or needed to keep handy. Now they’re all in a neat folder marked festival 2016 and I get to see my beautiful screen saver again. Bob Armstrong’s wonderful Mendenhall beaver dam. Breathe!
Oh and a beaver has now attacked not one but TWO people in a prophetically named town called Killingly in CT. It is all over the news but the story is pretty much the same. Swimming, dog, kits, beaver, rabies, you know the drill. And a prosthetic leg was found in the beaver dam, which is old news in Martinez where it has happened at least twice already.
