some time tonight one of our cats, Tsume, was making the noises that he had something to show off. We had this coqui frog out front that we have been after for a while, and it appears that it's the one that's gone now. It was the one closest to the house (and for those of you who hadn't heard this: they're about the size of a quarter and make
120 dB noise). In the meantime we're surrounded by them, which is a lot less annoying than only having one, you may have to yell at me on the phone (but rain can cause that too), and we had to turn up the TV a notch.But the thing that was just outside the window is gone now. I hope it's gone for good. And it looks like he showed the SKOD (= savage kitten of death) what to do with those. Tsume in his younger years was known as the "mean and vicious attack kitten" (mostly during the last time I had the flu, about 5 1/2 years ago - you get a chest cartilage inflammation from coughing, I can tell you that even a small kitten running around on top of you hurts like heck.). He is known as "zoom zoom the wonder cat" in our family these days.
End of OT post. I wanted to post this somewhere public. I hope people here don't mind. I almost feel like cross posting to soc.culture.hawaii, but it frowns on cross posts (it's moderated)
Aloha, Maren (I wish they'd be as strict on plant materials being shipped in as they are on plant materials being shipped out. I have to take my clove seeds that I ship to Europe to Ag inspection not because any country in the EU requires it but because they go through the US mainland. The coqui frogs came in with a (legal) plant shipment from Puerto Rico)