Next week I'm gonna be spending 5 days at the cottage with my sister and her friend, I'm basically there bc I know all the ins and outs of keeping things running at the cottage, but we're gonna be doing a bunch of cool stuff like going to a nature preserve and visiting a very cool town that has cool creatures but also is a very popular gemstone hunting locale (we have several rocks containing sodalite, a close cousin of lapis lazuli, we got once from an old quarry rock-dumping site that folks search for gems and minerals). Plus I'm sure we'll do a lot of cool stuff around the cottage, I know my sister will want to go to our favourite salamandering spots in search of cool salamanders, this is the best time of year for those kinds of salamanders!!!!!!