<!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 6.00.2900.2963" 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>Finally, a good soaking rain overnight last night. But wonderfully, no rain today. Temperature up to 53 in West.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Starting down-basin again... We don't know for sure what Grotto did overnight, except that it probably had some sort of short, mini-marathon that ended in the middle of the night. Early today, Bijou was almost but not quite dead. What was probably the recovery hot period was at 0822 (d = 6m 15s). That was followed by another hot period at 0926ie (weak), then one at 1041 ( d ~ 5 1/2 min), a bathtub at 1206, and finally (radioed by Bill W) a hot period at 1310ie (d ~ 2 min).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The first Grotto Fountain after the overnight-whatever happened at 1038. The duration was about 20 minutes and it was NOT accompanied by Grotto. Again.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yesterday Mike and I saw Artemisia's steam cloud at 1213ie. Today we saw it at 1216ie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy was at 0819 and 1118.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This morning's only Oblong was at 1102.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand was 0447E and had not gone again as of 1315.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Castle was 0604E and clearly was a minor (though it was reported initially as a major), as there was a full major starting at 1033.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive was not seen on Sunday and it was not seen on Monday, so it was not expected when it was caught at 1213ie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume produced intervals of 126 minutes for 2 intervals, 61 min, and 144 min again for 2 intervals.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Black Diamond has not erupted in days -- its water is the clearest I've seen since the first activity in July.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And this was fun -- upon leaving Old Faithful, I swung by Great Fountain. It was boiling vigorously. One car came by, asked about it and when I said it would erupt within a few minutes, they drove away. So it was that (really!) at 1338 I was the only person there for the meter boil (P = 6). Yes, traffic has died down, but not that much. Some other people arrived about 5 minutes into the true eruption, after Great Fountain had had some bursts to maybe 150 feet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For me, just three more days in 2006.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>