Lost and Found

This week has been AMAZING. I haven't even officially been in Oregon a full week yet and already I've had some amazing experiences.FOUND: HOUSING. First and foremost, my housemate, Janice, is super sweet and I have to send kudos to her for being so accomodating to us three girls. She just lost her yellow lab, Cosmos, unexpectedly, and so she has reached out to Shabbi and Kika surprisingly well. I am very grateful. She has a gorgeous house on a hill out in the country; it's full of windy roads and scary embankments, but once you get there, the view is breathtaking. We have our own bedroom and bathroom, and Janice made space in the kitchen for me to put groceries. I think she's afraid we won't be staying because the drive to the field house is longer than I thought (30 minutes) and there are lots of steps for me to carry Shabbi up and down. But, I know I'll never get such a gracious host/landlady anywhere else so we are definitely staying. She and her boyfriend, Art, are awesome folks, and fellow biologists, so I think they will be friends in addition to housemates.FOUND: SPOTTED OWLS. I've had the fortune of being invited to participate in an on-going spotted owl study here in Oregon. They have several pairs and singles located and radio-tagged so we've been doing some radio telemetry to find them each day. We're replacing the radios on some of them and doing general checks for health and presence in others. This intro to Oregon really takes the cake, I tell ya. If anyone had told me I'd be holding a Spottie this week, I would have laughed in their face.LOST: CELL PHONE. *sigh* Slim, upright (not flip) silver Samsung phone with black leather case. Lost somewhere near Winston, Oregon. Valuable pics and phone numbers stored on phone. Please contact if found.