The neighbor’s horses where horsing around while I was photographing them, but when the sorrel decided to come over and check me out, the gray horse bit him. The runt coon came begging at the door, and unlike the other raccoons that always look mean, the runt has a sweet, sad look about him. He gave me a similar look back in July when his mama and siblings left him stranded on the deck https://photoofthedayetc.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/i-want-my-mama/.

The OGS approved Laurie’s thesis and she got copies of the grading sheets from her committee members. Her committee has some of the hardest graders in the Math Department, and they gave her mostly “excellent’s” with a couple of “very good’s” on her substance, methodology, style, originality and the work as a whole. All the comments were really positive, and one committee member wrote “The work is original and elegant.” which is high praise from a well-respected mathematician.