Puppets discovered

I went through quite the phase of marionette puppets when I was a kid. I loved them but was never very good at manipulating them.
I had found one box before I moved to Maine and dropped them off at a consignment store to be sold. Well, look what Mom uncovered under a blanket. Some are tangled and a couple have had their strings cut, I assume they had gotten too tangled but some are fine. I'm going to see if the art teacher might want them for any reason.

The extra is a Patty update!!! Dan collected a number of her eggs and put them in the incubator. Two of them hatched and they are pretty adorable. That weird thing in the water dish is a rock. I thought it looked like a piece of meat. They are inside the house at the moment. He says he doesn't think Hilda knows they are there. She's quite deaf now.