<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>I know this might not be posted for some time, but.. two especially unusual things today.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Silex erupted at 1104 initial, seen by Graham Meech. It probably also erupted on Sunday and last week, so may be back to 2 or 3 day intervals.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>More significant, maybe -- heck, Giant might have gone by now. This afternoon, South Grotto Fountain underwent a series of 13 eruptions. Intervals were mostly on the order of 10 to 12 minutes, durations around 2 minutes. Indicator Spring stayed at a high level throughout, varying up and down only a couple of inches. Most eruptions of South were accompanied by incipient/not quite there action in Startling, and also by sometimes-vigorous Central Vent eruptions. There was often rather heavy splashing in Grotto, heavy enough to make us think it might start without the Fountains. Finally, after a short 5 minute interval, things held off for 23 minutes when Grotto Fountain erupted. Then Grotto started less than 2 minutes later with the biggest initial surgey any of us have ever seen. Really, it certainly reached and might well have topped 50 feet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>During all this stuff, Giant Group had a Mastiff bathtub, a weak (2 minute, no Feather Satellite) hot period an hour later, and then another bathtub an hour after the hot period.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Being a semi-working homeowner, I had to get back to town, so...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>