FROGS! 6/1/06

I love frogs. I have a bunch of live frogs in tanks in the frog room at home.
Spring has sprung and some of my male frogs have taken to screaming their little lungs out
in order to seduce the female frogs living with them into having sex.

Frogs really got it going on. Some frogs who do not care for other frogs will eat them. A very simple cost-effective solution to a potentially explosive problem.

Oh if we humans could be as smart and as cunning as the average frog.

~sapphoq

thanks ischade for sending me the flowered frog.

UNCLE RAY 5/22/06

My Uncle Ray died this weekend. He was old and a stroke took him. His wife my Aunt Mary died before him and my cousin Cindy died before her. Two other cousins and their families are still around.

Uncle Ray dressed up as Santa Claus one christmas delighting me as a child. My Aunt Mary let me eat Lucky Charms one afternoon. She didn't think that the rule about breakfast foods being only for breakfast was one she should enforce.

Aunt Mary was a stay-at-home mom and Uncle Ray was a bus driver. He used to take the old people on chartered tours. Cindy lived in Sri Lanka and on a reservation. Later in life, she became a doctor.

I miss them. When people die, we lose one person. The dead person loses everyone.

I don't care much for waiting "to be united" in a christian heaven that I don't believe in. Nor to I take to talking to dead people, channeling them, or calling them back in seances. Life is for the living.

One thing I can say about Death-- Death is ALWAYS inconvenient.

~sapphoq

CELEBRATE LIFE

~art by sapphoq