That is a great day Ryan. My day was kind of similar to yours! And also, if you were at the area that I think you were at, then I almost came close to meeting you. I had originally planned to make a trip to that spot today also.

My 2005 lifelisters: Eastern Coachwhip Snake (Black Phase) Central Plains Milk Snake Intergrade Red/Central Plains Milk Intergrade Speckled/Desert Kingsnake Western Plains Garter Snake Sonoran Mountain Whipsnake Sonoran Gopher Snake Mojave Rattlesnake Great Plains Skink Western Slender Glass Lizard Mountain Short Horned Lizard Zebra-tailed Lizard Sonoran Spotted Whiptail Madrean Alligator Lizard Desert Box Turtle Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad Sonoran Toad Mexican Spadefoot Toad Some of my favorite herping moments of the year (in chronological order): 1. The startling discovery of a 5 1/2 foot long Eastern Coachwhip Snake (while showing Eitan Grunwald around) under a rock when my eyes and brain were adjusted to ringneck snakes and earth snakes. 2. Finding 4 adult Timber Rattlesnakes and a Racer under a corner of tin. That piece of tin had 8 snakes total under it and the tin pile produced an additional timber and a speckled/desert kingsnake as well. 3. Finding pairs of Central Plains Milksnakes with Chad as our guide. 4. Wading at night among the cottonmouths with herpfriend. 5. Finding my lifelist mojave rattlesnake. 6. Getting tagged five times by a gorgeous Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake. It's been an enjoyable year and fall migration in Missouri and Southern Illinois is still to come..

Yeah, I understand what you are saying. The room is a just a regular bedroom - low humidity (in fact lots of forced hot air coming through the heating vents) - so I don't know of any reason why the primer would not dry or cure as it should. The walls look perfectly fine (other than the hairline cracks that I saw in a few places in the corners and the "testing" that I did). So, it's been at least a week - is there any way to know for sure if the primer is adhering as it should? I really feel stupid, because I suspect that there was nothing wrong to begin with and being able to peel the primer off doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Does she have a cold or anything? Our son recently started getting cold sores and they can be little bumps in cluster type things for a while. I have been getting them for about 5 years and was very careful to not pass them to our son when I had them but he got them from a cold. The first time I had them, I got about 4 or 5. They don't hurt all the time, only during certain stages so maybe they aren't bothering your daughter now. Does she eat table foods? Shane points his out to me when he's eating certain things, something salty or hot (temp). How long has she had these? If they're cold sores, the blister things will pop and there will be a sort of clear liquid in there and then they're start to dry up and go away but they take time if you don't use something on them. They also tend to look white before they pop. I put some Camphofenique gel on mine and Shane's and they go away pretty fast. He understands that the medicine makes it go away and deals with it. Good luck! Hope it's not cold sores and it's something else! ~Leslie~