It reminds me of when I was about eight years old, my cousins and I found dinosaur bones out in the woods on the farm.  We were really into dinosaurs too---and this was before Jurassic Park.   For several days we dragged the old bleached bones back to the house and lined them up on the lawn---some of the bones were almost as big as we were.  

     In "retrospect" I can't believe my parents put up with it----the dogs didn't even seem too interested in them (must have been too old).

     In "retrospect" I can't believe I never understood the disconnect between how old I was and how long ago dinosaurs roamed the earth.  Were there ever any dinosaurs in Connecticut?  In our eight year old heads there were---might even still be---some where on the other side of the "Back-40." 

     In "retrospect" I can't believe I was so STUPID!!!!

     You see----things aren't always the way they "seem" or the way you "wish" them to be----sometimes things are simply the way that they "are."  So as we kept digging out the dinosaurs bones, and carefully catalogued them on the front lawn----it was sort of a rude awakening when we found the horse shoes .