In August Congresssaurus Triceratops returned to his native Wyoming for a time, and so Stegosaurus decided to take a trip himself as he had not left his home for a while. He decided upon visiting Washington DC, because he had heard that his home at the Smithsonian Institution was reopened there. Newly renovated courtesy of the Koch Brothers.

"I'm pleased to stomp there for the first time since the museum closed my home for renovation in 2014," said Stegosaurus.

"The mammals have updated their science which is to be expected; they've learned a lot about us in the last 40 or 50 years. Or, maybe it was the last few weeks. It wasn't that long ago. I am however still kind of disappointed to find that I don't have feathers yet. That was something I really had my heart set upon, but the time has not yet arrived. Nonetheless, I found all my friends to be very much more active in their general manner than I had remembered from previous visits."

"I was able to sneak by Tyrannosaurus Rex as he was occupied with Triceratops, ( I was sure Triceratops had gone to Wyoming, but I didn't stop to ask ... it looked like a bad time. ) I also knew that I had to keep a wary eye out for Ceratosaurus, a meat eating theropod with a demeanor and appetite very similar to my brother Allosaurus. Indeed, instead of greeting me in a civil manner like most of my herbivore friends do, he sneakily tried to eat me. So I taught him a lesson, fortunately I was quick and knocked him down with my cool, spiky tail. Now he will think twice before attacking me again!"

"All in all, the Koch Brothers have done a fine job with my new home; and it isn't just my Mesozoic contemporaries that I get to visit with: as before my friends from the Pleistocene are there too. I heartily encourage you to visit and learn from my newly renovated home. I frequently come to museums to make a few extra dollars. It is easy work as long as you don't mind standing still for long periods of time and pretending to be extinct. Won't you visit? I'd love to see you."



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In mid July, Congresssaurus Triceratops was still in Colorado visiting Stegosaurus when he heard the news from Washington, DC that he had been cleared of collusion with Russia by the United States Congress.

"I'm glad to hear this, friend Congresssaurus Triceratops," said Stegosaurus.


"Me too; the accusation was groundless .... I was only attending a local production of Finian's Rainbow; and of course I spoke to Londonderry Birds on my way home .... there was never any connection to Russia ........ just power mad mammals who saw what they wanted to see."

"Their concern isn't the welfare of the country; what they are doing is only for the short term gain of their party; not a one of them stands on any thing even remotely resembling honor or principle. There is no integrity to be found in the Halls of the US Congress."

"Will you be returning to Congress, then?" asked Stegosaurus. "It looks like they need your sense of honor and integrity."

"No, no, no. It took me a while to embrace the idea of retirement; I've been in public service for the better part of 70 million years. I've spent years of public service in Greece; in Rome; in Europe; and the United States. Not only has the political climate discouraged me ( as I have seen it so many times before. ) and if the mammals' shenanigans or a meteor falls from the sky and ends it all, I should like to spend some time in my life in the pursuit of more peaceful endeavors that may help both dinosaur and the race of mammals in other ways."

"The pursuit of science is my newest endeavor; and with my remaining years I shall shed light and bring hope to the future by helping you to extract Sunlight from cucumbers."

"Let us prepare a nice mid afternoon snack, and we can compare notes on our progress when I return," said Stegosaurus.

"I have a couple of cucumbers I'd like to show you; while you were away meeting with your accountant Corythosaurus, I think there has been a great stomp forward. I may have been successful in something mammals have been trying for, trying to succeed at since the year 1726. I think I have extracted sunlight from cucumbers!"

"That's great," said Stegosaurus. "I knew that having your larger brain around would be an advantage to the cause. I will return in a moment."


"How about some leftover Austrian Pines? They're leftover from Corythosaurus' visit."

"That would be great."

"I'll add some vegetables from the garden too."

"Some tomatoes would be nice."

Stegosaurus returned with a nicely prepared meal of Austrian pines and cucumbers for two.

Stegosaurus and Congresssaurus Triceratops dug into their meal right away and ate heartily. Before too long, they had finished.

"Well now that was a very good meal. Remain here, and I shall retrieve my cucumbers to show you the scientific advancement to which the mind of dinosaurs have contributed. They laughed at us in the realm of science; they said because we were dinosaurs we were too slow witted to understand the complexities of science. Why, for science, they said, you need a mammal brain !! But I, but you and I have proved them wrong today!" declared Congressaurus Triceratops.

"I know how it is. Sometimes I think they never acknowledge the fact that we aren't slow and slow witted cold blooded swamp monsters. I will await news of your exciting discovery!" said Stegosaurus.

However before too long a time, Congressaurus Triceratops returned distressed. "Where are the two cucumbers I set aside while you were meeting with Corythosaurus?"

"On the rock ledge to the left," said Stegosaurus. "That's where I keep stuff I've harvested from the garden."

"I see no cucumbers there; only tomatoes. Wait.... were we not supposed to have tomatoes with our meal?"

"Yes, but I saw some cucumbers there and I thought that might be better for lunch and we could save the tomatoes for dinn .... um, oops."

"Oh Stegosaurus, Stegosaurus ....."

"Oh dear. I hope we can still be friends .... I didn't mean to ..... will you still stay in Colorado? Can't you repeat your experiment? I'll help you in any way I can. I am really sorry."

"Of course we can still be friends, and I will remain in Colorado as long as you will have me ..... I will just have to start over again. I sure hope I can remember all the complex steps."

"I'm really sorry, Congresssaurus Triceratops. Really."

"Don't worry. I'm just as guilty of eating them as you are ... also, I've served in Congress I'm used to such setbacks and having to go back to the drawing board, to use a mammal expression. What we did once, we can do again, science has been waiting a long time for this breakthrough, it will just have to wait a little bit longer."

"One day last week I was visited by my loyal, hard working accountant known as Corythosaurus," said Stegosaurus. "We have rarely met in person, being such busy individuals, but I had received word from him that we needed to meet to discuss an important business matter, so I invited him to my home in Colorado".

"I have stomped all the way from my home in the Red Deer River of Alberta to discuss with you an important matter," said Corythosaurus.

"I will attend with great interest the things that you have to say, but do tell, how is our mutual friend Styracosaurus doing?"

"Styracosaurus is doing just fine; he has asked you to come visit some time soon, as he cannot eat all the coffee plants by himself."

"Have you eaten coffee plants?" asked Stegosaurus.

"I considered it at one point, but now I have stumbled upon an invention of the mammals called Diet Coke and that is my favorite."

"I have never tried this mammal invention," said Stegosaurus. "But returning to the important reason for your visit, is it that brings you to Colorado? What concern could be so great?"

"Well you know I am your loyal hard working accountant and I have for years kept an eye on your various investments. Many are doing well you have chosen wisely many times. Of course, with me as your advisor, how could you fail? But there is one endeavor that has not panned out the way we had hoped. Both of your apartment complexes designed for mammals, in Sunnyvale, California and the other in Santa Monica are failing.
We started them out in March 2014 with high hopes, but it looks now like the best thing might be to close them down and re direct those resources into other things."

"What ever you think is best," said Stegosaurus; "I trust your judgement but tell me what is the cause of this?"

"We've tried, but they never really quite took off as we'd hoped to start. As it turns out the first couple of years we barely broke even, and since 2016 we have been losing money. I even tried opening a bakery to sell bread at the Santa Monica location but there appeared to be little interest."

"Why? You do make a good bread," said Stegosaurus.

"I do make a good bread, but there were not a lot of mammals living there at the time to have the impact I had expected, and I much prefer my home on the Red Deer River in Canada to the hustle and bustle of California."

"What do you think was the cause? Not your baking?"

"No not at all it is the business model. Mammals really don't use trees as currency in any capacity, and they don't eat them at all. The apartments are too small to fit dinosaurs and in order to modify the apartments for them, we'd have to tear down the old complexes and rebuild. It's just too expensive."

"But I don't understand. Weren't the mammals spending enough to live there? Did the forests become extinct? I knew I had been away from California for too long!" exclaimed Stegosaurus.

"Now Stegosaurus, you know that an economy requires more than mammal spending. We could make a law that says mammals get 100 extra a month in spending money because they are smaller and thus, suffer disadvantages that we taller, heavier dinosaurs do not, but that in and of itself would not solve the problem. It is not a long term view and does not take into account the effects of such a policy on the whole group. Why there is more to a mammal economy than that certain species spend while others are taxed because certain groups think they can afford it or deserve it.

What about considering the payment of wages?

The importance of capital maintenance ?

How to account for the lack of new capital investment?

Nothing is ever that simple."

"Well, what if a mammal lives in New York and bagels cost $7.00, why can't that mammal be paid $15.00 an hour?" asked Stegosaurus.

"Sigh." said Corythosaurus. "You haven't been eating Austrian Pines lately, have you?"

"Why no, why do you ask?" asked Stegosaurus.

"I am taking you to dinner; after a good meal of Austrian Pines you will figure it out."

"Okay it is a deal," said Stegosaurus. "I will guard you, and if any bears accost you, I will whack them with my cool, spiky tail."

"Fair enough." said Corythosaurus.

"If you feel like it later", asked Stegosaurus, "Will you bake some bread? Maybe the mammals in Santa Monica were not impressed, but I am very fond of your baking skills."

"Thank you kindly good friend. If there is time, I will be glad to," said Corythosaurus.

"My birthday has come around again," said Stegosaurus. "This year I am, I am told, 140 Million and 13 years old. It is hard to think on how much I have accomplished in my life when my brain is only the size of a walnut, but I certainly have enjoyed all the things I have done.
I used to need some one to remind me, but of recent years I've just taken to reading my blog archive, and that gives me a pretty good idea of my adventures. I'm not so much "Hopelessly stupid," as my friend Charles Knight once remarked ~ as I am easily absentminded and hyperfocused on my moment at hand. Which right now is another birthday and yet another cake!"

"I do enjoy my cake; I've liked cakes since cakes were invented you know. But I also do like pies. And this pie, is a blueberry pie. Blueberries you know contain antioxidants ~ and this, my friends is the secret to living to be 140 Million and 13. And when you reach a milestone such as this one, that I did last week on June 1st is that you get both a cake and a pie for your birthday. I'm a very practical dinosaur and easy to buy gifts for. Mammals have many things, that they own or they would like to own; I am just a dinosaur and as long as I have my health, a good cake, a good pie and a nice grove of Cycadales palm fronds, I will be content. And I shall strive to always be content; to help all my friends when ever I can, and unless a giant meteor falls from the sky between now and then, I expect to do the same thing when it is time for my 140 Million and 14th birthday!"

Bonjour, Mon nom est Loricatosaurus !!

Ça fait une semaine que je suis retourné en France de la Chine. J’ai passé une bonne vacance, Mais pas productive en ce qui concerne de me retrouver.

Mon époux était très heureux de me revoir, mais désappointé que de nouveau que je ne mets pas retrouver. Il m’a demandé à propos de la santé d’Wuerhosaurus, mais il était plus intéressé de ma santé parce qu’il ne m’avait pas vu pour quelques mois. Les travaux d’aller et de revenir de la Chine prend ceci prend beaucoup de temps ; leur bateaux sont très lent.



"Je suis désoler que tu ne t’as pas retrouvé," m’a dit mon époux. "Où vas-tu chercher ensuite ?"

"Je n’ai pas encore décidé," je lui ai dit. " J’ai été parti pour une longue période et j’aimerais plutôt passer du temps avec toi en France."

"Tu es très gentille, ma chère."

"C’est assez à propos de moi. Je vois que tu as gardé la caverne en ordre ; quoi d’autre s’est-il passé durant mon absence ?"

"Alors, Je veux te dire pourquoi je ne suis pas allé en Chine avec toi. J’avais lu un article sur l’internet avant ton départ pour l’Orient que j’étais devenu Nomen dubnium. J’ai peut-être un cerveau de la grosseur d’une noix, mais je sais ce que cela veut dire. Cela veut dire que mon existence est incertaine, et je pourrais disparaître d’un jour à l’autre, donc je me suis immédiatement arrangé d’avoir soin de toi pour ton avenir. Aussi je pense que nous ne devons pas avoir des petits, si nous en avons, et je disparais, ils vont grandir sans leur père et pour toi ce serait difficile."

"Bon j’ai reçu des nouvelles de notre cousin Kentrosaurus dans sa forêt, qu’il a planté le Terrain de Veuve pour tes soins. J’ai demandé à Kentrosaurus de venir en France aussi vite que son canot peut aller, ceci est lent mais c’est plus vite qu’un bateau de la Chine."

"Je suis touché, Lexovisaurus. Vraiment et sincèrement." Je lui ai dit.

"Je dois t’amener tout de suite pour le voir ; ce n’est pas prêt pour y vivre maintenant, les arbres doivent pousser. Mais je veux ton impression de ceci avant que je disparaisse."

"Je serais très heureuse d’y aller avec toi," je lui ai dit. " Le sentiment à propos de ceci est une des plus touchante chose que j’ai ressentis depuis le jour de notre première rencontre à L’Opéra Italienne. Mais je dois t’assurer que tu ne disparaîtrait pas parce que la science déclare que t’es Nomen Dubium. Si ceci était possible, tu aurais disparu il y a une décennie. J’indique que, tu as été déclaré Nomen dubium en 2008, et te voici encore vivant et en santé. Tu as continué de piétiner, malgré la classification scientifique, juste comme le Tranchodon ou la Agathaumas, ou quelques autres dinosaures que je pourrais nommer qui ne sont pas disparus dans cette histoire jusqu’à présent. Regarde à tout ce qu’ils ont accompli ! Regarde à tout ce que tu as accompli avant que tu connaisses de ton existence !! Ne pas exister n’est pas la fin du monde ; ce n’est pas comme un météore qui tombe du ciel. Oui ce serait quelque chose mais ceci est comme piétiné d’un groupe d’arbres à un autre ; des arbres au lac pour boire. Je suis sûre que Stégosaurus Claus va tous les ans t’apporter des cadeaux. Ne t’inquiète pas."

" Tu me dis que tu savais tout ce temps que j’étais Nomen dubium ?"

"Oui."

"Mais à propos de Torosaurus ? Il a disparu le même été que le Congrès Américain a eu un débat sur l’existence des Congressaurus Triceratops. "

"Torosaurus n’a pas disparu, mon cher," Je réplique. "Il a simplement été accord de devenir un Triceratops. Cette classification qu’il a été d’accord avec et essentiellement qu’il a changé son nom."

" Je suppose que tu as raison. Peut-être nous pouvons décider à avoir des petits après un certain temps."

"Après une longue période de temps, mon cher. Je viens de graduée et je voudrais jouir de quelques étés pour utiliser mon degré et de me retrouver."

"Je comprend."

"Je ne vais pas éliminer cette possibilité ; peut-être un jour nous pouvons le faire, mais pas maintenant, je voudrais me retrouver, si c’est possible."

"J’apprécie ma nouvelle forêt, mais je veux que tu saches que je vais toujours t’aimer si tu existes ou non. Après tout, la science peut quelquefois déterminer dans le futur que je n’existe pas, comme lorsque j’ai pris la classe d’étiquette sur "Vos Epaules Pointues et Situations Social Maladroits" lorsque je n’avais aucune épaules pointues !! Seul le temps le dira," j’ai dit

"Tu as raison. Viens, laisse-moi t’amener dans la forêt que j’ai plantée. Il y a beaucoup de Cycads et de Ginkgoaceae. Comme nous nous rappelons des jours quand nous sortions de nos coquilles," a dit Lexovisaurus. "Tu es le meilleur partenaire qu’un dinosaure peut demander," J’ai répondu. Après nous avons appréciés la fin de semaine ensemble dans notre belle forêt pas loin de notre chez-nous."

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