I Didn't Save 15% in 15 Minutes!!!

When several days ago, I walked the back side of the Packery Channel mudflats in hopes of finding some nesting plovers, I followed the shore line of the bay going back to the car when I tallied up my step count to be about 3 miles. While scouting the horizon and the grassy areas here and there, I spotted a small piece of drift wood in the sandbar. My first impression was "this looks like a reptile...maybe an alligator hatchling?" I picked it up, and carried it with me back to the car and placed it in the trunk before I sat at a picnic table to cool down and dry off a bit before getting into the air-conditioned car. At home I asked Bud for his carving knife again [he keeps it very sharp; even when not used often].

I started carving a couple days afterward on the wood, once it dried up, and I was able to get the knife in the wood without ruining the blade. I whittled, and scraped, slowly it took some shape! Then, I broke it! Dang!! The wood, being that it probably sat on the wet sand for years, was close to too soft! I glued it back together and waited a day or two. Got back to whittling away. "Well it doesn't look like an alligator to me, does it you?" I asked Bud. Before he had a chance to answer, I said "...more like a lizard". Bud said, "Well, then, a gecko. Just say it's a gecko. But clearly NOT the Geico Gecko" So, that is what it is. A very PRIMATIVE carving, Gave me something to do on a rainy morning on Tuesday...

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TROLL DOLL COLLECTION Holiday Themed Christmas Elf circa: mid to late 70s