The world according to me....

Well, hard to believe it but we are finished with the false carapaces, to be used at the tagging workshop in Kuala Lumpur next week. I should have known the first day I saw Catherine’s foam carapaces roll away like tumbleweed in the wind, that it would have been a challenge. But I hadn’t realized just how much of a challenge! First, we forgot all the ingredients, but that was easily remedied by visiting the cafeteria. Second, I had gotten the “wrong kind” of newspaper, fortunately Catherine had gotten some "just in case." Then, Catherine’s dogs ate the first two papier-maché molds - no easy solution there. Next, we didn’t put enough foam in the molds the first time around so several of the finished carapaces looked more like crab-pot buoys. Despite such adversity, we persisted and here is Catherine putting the finishing touches on the final products earlier today. We even had unsolicited comments from passers-by that our “carapaces” looked very nice. However, I think this attests more to general politeness than our artistic skill!