toad house

i was reading about global warming when i ran across an article about toad houses. you just have to make a hole in a clay pot at the edge, turn it upside down in the garden and provide a saucer of water and presto--instant bug snappers. just have to convince my sister. i know she doesn't like snakes, but i don't know how she feels about toads.

it was sort of a coincidence that i rented the movie the day after just two days before about global cooling. sort of scary. so which is it? warming? or cooling? or first one and then the other?

mystery solved

this week is take care of all the stuff you should have done...ie, oil change, teeth cleaning, health check-up. so the boys were stuffed into one cat carrier...dennis protesting with claws and taken to the vet about 20 minutes away. dennis was so stressed his paws turned bright pink and sweaty plus he shot lots of white hairs everywhere. sam though was very nonchalant....he never has had to stay several days at the vets after an operation with two shunts in his face. the vet seemed chatty, so i asked him about sam's diagnosis of kitty hiv. found out that when a kitten is little they may have antibodies for hiv if their mother had hiv, but after a while the antibodies will dissappear and then the kitten will test negative. it is clear that sam does not have kitty hiv. he is fat, shiny and mellow. he sleeps a lot but that is what older cats do... and older people too.