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Oh Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm I'm Astronomycast, Episode 791, Chung a sample return. Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the Universe Today. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmo Quest. Hey, Pamela, how are you doing? I am doing well. How are you doing?

Good. I am doing well as well. We are both enjoying the spring and getting out there with our

with our saws and our clippers and our lawnmowers and starting to process nature bring it back into the fold and yeah it's

crazy our mason bees just came out today uh we've got a house wren that is sitting on a birdhouse

that i made that is just calling and calling for a mate we've got swallows that have all showed up and are examining all of the swallow boxes that I built.

We saw an alligator lizard yesterday, which is a highlight. It's our native lizard here on Vancouver Island.

I had no idea. They went that far north. Yeah, we have salamander. So my wife found a salamander climbing out of our time shrubs, which was awesome, and she, you know, delivered it out into the forest.

It's just, you know, deer, I'm ready for the bears.

It's always just, it's always surprising.

Like, I've even written all the stuff down in my calendar that I talk about.

And yet still, they show up.

And you're like, finally.

I never knew that this, that this would return.

And here we are.

Spring is returning.

And I just love it so much.

That is absolutely amazing.

The thing that has not returned is my video camera functionality.

So it was working and then everything said, no, I shall die now.

So those of you watching this on YouTube, I have disappeared.

Oh, great.

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