Amputated Lizard Tail

Reuben's lizard with the end of his tail cut off...

Today after school Reuben and Libby wanted to go to the skate park that's kind of in the middle of a field off the bike trail, so they loaded their skateboards into the car before school.  Today was another beautiful, WARM, sunny day!  There were some pretty decent skateboarders there, and of course Reuben and Libby are just beginners.  Libby even wanted me to come hold her hand while she rode on the board.  They mostly just played on the slopes a little bit using them as slides without their boards...then admired the other people doing tricks.  Then Reuben came running over with the end of a tail that was going crazy.  I thought it was just some weird kind of twitchy worm at first when he gave it to me, and then he came back with the lizard that it had detached from, still alive just slightly traumatized.  I've never seen one quite like it...was really skinny kind of like a snake with legs and real sleek and shiny! 

Tessa and I spent pretty much the entire morning in the park, but the swings were missing!  For some reason they had been taken away and the structure was surrounded by orange fence, so all that was left was a slide.  She still enjoyed that, kept wondering where the swings went.  While Tessa napped today I tidied and sorted some laundry out and started on the cake baking for the school fair November 6th.  Julia has already done a lot to help out and designed the signs to advertise, incorporating the kids artwork into them, and figured it wouldn't be so hard to make a couple of cakes to sell.  After saying she'd do it, however, found out that each person generally makes around 20 cakes and they have about 400 and are still the first booth to sell out!!  So she asked if I'd start today!  I made two chocolate cakes that will probably get frozen until the night before when they're all frosted.  I'm sure I'll be making 2 tomorrow and then two each day next week as well.  It will be hard not to sample any of them...