Huber / 1965 Journal Jan 26 Hono - at sea. Had some trouble getting out here, because of ice + rain in todo. all planes were canceled. so I had to drive 300 miles to Chicago and take the plane out of there. I spent about 15$ driving there (tolls+gas) and got a 6$ refund on my plane ticket. Not a very good ratio. I am getting screwed already this trip - no excursion. Nobody. back at the SI (except people who don't know anything about stuffing big birds) likes cotton bodies. I can't put up as good a skin with a cotton body, so this next batch of birds shouldn't help my standing at all. If Earl in my army ever gives me doing birds with cotton bodies he'll never help me with birds again. Bober will never talk to me again. Arrgh. I hope we don't collect many large birds this trip. Since I've got to skin a lot of the birds I wish someone would let me have a say as to what I skin with. With all the tops of sandust available to the project I find 100 % of cornmeal about for skinning. No wonder the project is always complaining about its birds being so good. Maybe someday it will learn that top quality birds can't be put up with poor quality materials.