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Jul. 7th, 2021 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterAfter almost all of our seed-harvester queens died, I made plans to go back to California. Picked up the rental car yesterday morning, picked up the students, and drove straight back to Pine Valley. Our first 30 minutes of searching were disheartening, but then, miracle of miracles, we found a heap more queens! The students were especially thrilled.
We stayed overnight at a motel in Wynola, with pizza (and for me, good beer) for dinner at a fancy pizza place. In the morning we ventured back over to Lake Henshaw and got another decent haul of queens from there, too.
Shortly afternoon, we set sail back to Arizona (metaphorically speaking; this time the rental car was some kind of Kia - definitely my least favorite of all the cars I've driven recently).
Now we are back and I am exhausted. Tomorrow we'll be back to respirometry in the lab again.
We stayed overnight at a motel in Wynola, with pizza (and for me, good beer) for dinner at a fancy pizza place. In the morning we ventured back over to Lake Henshaw and got another decent haul of queens from there, too.
Shortly afternoon, we set sail back to Arizona (metaphorically speaking; this time the rental car was some kind of Kia - definitely my least favorite of all the cars I've driven recently).
Now we are back and I am exhausted. Tomorrow we'll be back to respirometry in the lab again.
