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To: Crocodile who wrote (62548)	5/8/2002 11:33:54 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Do you have fireflies? Fireflies were a huge part of my childhood back East. We used to stay up on long summer evenings and chase them around the garden and catch some in a jar (with holes in the lid) and try to catch enough to give us enough light to read a book by. Then when we got called in for the absolutely last time, come NOW, we would let them all go and go to bed and watch them in the bushes outside our windows. There are no fireflies out here. Don't live in Washington, at least not in Western Washington. We took the kids back East a few years ago and one of the highlights was waiting for a fireworks display to start on a field next to a wooded area and seeing thousands, it seemed, of fireflies -- the first they had ever seen. It was magical, and far better, they thought, than the man-made fireworks. I don't miss a lot about the East -- the heat, the humidity, the snow, the packed humanity -- but I do miss the fireflies.

To: Crocodile who wrote (62548)	5/10/2002 9:20:52 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Our frog seems to be a mute. At least I haven't heard him singing yet. I thought he had left, but yesterday when I took the top off a skimmer, there he was staring up at me. I had to move him because I was going to shock and add acid to the pool so I carried him down to the creek. It took a while, because I didn't like the way he felt and kept dropping him. I don't know what kind he is. He is a brownish-grey knobbly frog. He doesn't seem to have a great deal of personality, which is unfortunate since he isn't very pretty. Ammo said he might be in a chlorine coma though, and when it wears off, he could be the life of the party.