Yea! NFL Referees Return

I was extremely happy to hear that the NFL and their referees had reached agreement last night.  Tonight, the "regular" referees are working the Ravens - Browns game.  The officials received a standing ovation from the fans in the stands when they appeared on the field.  -  My only question is, what will happen to the three games already played, which all had at least one contested officials' call?  I still think this season will have an asterisk in the record books, with the asterisk designating disputed calls by the replacement referees....
    There was a large black bear in Kathy and Jim's back yard last night/evening.  It upset the dogs quite a bit; Mona, who was bred to hunt bears, wanted to go out the back door and attack it.  We thought it might have been drawn to the still-producing raspberry bushes, but they were untouched.  Most of the wind-fall apples have been picked up, and there are few left on the trees.  We walked the entire fence line this morning, which has barbed wire for a top strand (except at the gate), but couldn't find any evidence of the bear climbing the fence.  The only thing it left was a big pile of scat in the yard, which was full of berry and apple seeds.
   Potesta, the three-year-old filly who broke her foreleg in a breeze, is apparently doing well.  Not having heard anything about her for a couple of weeks, I was, honestly, expecting the worst.  However, word of her popped up today.  "Walking well and able to put pressure on the leg," was how Mitchell, owner, described the 3-year-old filly's progress via Twitter Sept. 27.  Potesta underwent surgery at Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center in California to stabilize the injury, which occurred high above the ankle in a six-furlong breeze under exercise rider Adalberto Lopez.  She will become a brood mare, if she continues healing well.
  And, looking back to the Eastern Shore:  a 30-foot-long juvenile humpback whale was washed into the shallows of Wallops Island yesterday.  It had suffered extreme damage from propeller blades along its back - from behind the eyes all the way to the dorsal fin.  After being evaluated by a team from the Baltimore Aquarium, it was decided the young male was too damaged to survive on his own, and was given huge doses of sedatives to euthanize him.   ....   And, another study has come out regarding the Chesapeake Bay; it states that the true Bay oyster is almost extinct, mainly due to over-harvesting, and, secondarily, due to pollution and sediment.  Less than 1% of the oysters now in the Chesapeake are descended from the oysters that were there 100 years ago.  That's a sad report.