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Since there was no Fossil Garage Sale this weekend I decided to drive 4 1/2 hours down to Brookville and St. Leon, Indiana on Friday to do a little collecting at both sites and then headed back home on Saturday week. I was a quick trip and I hit both sites on each day. On Friday it was about 70 degrees, but poured in the afternoon while I was at a Brookville road cut and on Saturday morning it was a brisk 37 degrees and I forgot to check the "Feels like" temp. The cut is very steep and prior to the rain it was very dry and there were numerous times when I lost my fitting and slid down at least 5 feet each time. This was the first time that I had visited this site and I was reminded of it by @stats Rich when I saw him last week at the garage sale, though I did not go to the cut that he goes too. With this report I am going to keep it short and just show a couple of my finds, but I did find a lot of stuff. I found a lot of larger, loose Rafinesquina, and I believe that this is one, but I never have found one shaped like this big boy. I found a lot of Cyclonema snails and as many that were just the internal mold, some are pictured in the Right side pic. The top internal mold in the below picture is a Monoplacophoran. I think that I found about 20 Ambonychia pelecypods, here are some below. Here is a piece with an Ambonychia (Top Left) and a Caritodens (Bottom Right) pelecypods. I found several other pieces of Caritodens,here is one below. I only found 1 partial trilobite at the Brookville site. I found a number of loose Leptaena brachiopods and a few plates with many. I found several Vinlandostrophia brachiopods. I thinks that these are all Hebertella, but I could be wrong, there are so many brachs that look the same to me. Ans I found a few cool hash plates, here is one below. At St. Leon I only found 3 very small Flexicalymene trilobites, here is one below. I found this large piece of an Isotelus trilobite. Post to cont-

Given all of the trauma, paranoia, panic, and birdseed in the news, I though news fluff about fossils is in order. Students search for sea-creature fossils off roadcut in Indiana By Julie Havlak, The Collegain, April 6, 2017 http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2017/04/students-search-sea-creature-fossils-off-roadcut-indiana/ Also, some cute cat pictures are needed to rest the sole: Emergency Kittens https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens Yours, Paul H.