Thanks for the comments, as you can tell...I love frogs! Brenda: Would you believe that crazy Damselfly landed just as I was about to click the pic. I really don't know what happened to it, but I would bet that the frog was thinking "lunch"! Glenda: My own cat would not be a threat to the frogs either, but the neighbor's cat truly is a serial killer. He just kills for the sport of it, and he is not particular about his prey; anything that moves suits his fancy. It is common for him to leave carnage all over the neighborhood! It is also a common site for the neighbors to see this old granny chasing the cat from my yard and yelling "go home, you murderer! LOL Of course, I would never do anything to hurt him, because I love all animals. And I think that mayabe the cat actually enjoys it when I chase him. Sometimes when he turns around to look at me, it almost looks as if he is smiling...

LOL... one word... CATNIP! Lots of it! I think I've contacted everyone that I needed to today. If not, someone drop me a note. We're forecast for severe thunderstorms today through tomorrow night, so my computer time may be limited. I don't like being on when there's lightening even though we have cable internet. Fran, please let me know ASAP whether you hear from Carrie. That will be the deciding factor in what I set up for Joan. By the way, Jamie emailed me and is still trying to get in touch with Kim. I let her know that officially, I'd dropped them from the swap, but if they complete it, both of them, and send me DCNs and post contents, it will have them clear for the group with the condition that they will have to send first in the next MNF swap they join. I felt this was the most fair way to deal with it, if they both complete the swap. I invite her to hang about and get to know folks and she's assured me that she will :) I'm very happy about that! Oh, and I called the company I ordered from and they're putting a rush on the order, and I found out that it's always best to call the order in and request a rush. Have a really nice conversation with the young lady I spoke with. We discussed my theme gardens and she's going to be checking into GW. She's interested in seeing my Gargoyle bed and Naughty Garden and I'd bet she'd be interested in seeing some of the other Goth type beds and any of the themed beds. She was really interested in the possibilities of those. I told her she'd need to check back in a couple months to see pics of mine since they're still pretty dormant at the moment and it will take some time for the kids and DH to get everything tended to, especially in the new beds that we just started working on. Anyway, she was a really sweet young lady and we had a nice conversation and she tried to see if there was more she could do to get my order here quickly. The rush was all she could do, but I should have my order here sometime late next week or early the following week. So I'll be able to have Nikki's box to mail out then. Everything else is ready and packed. Or ready to be packed :) Though the longer I have to wait to mail it off, the more seeds I find to tuck in ... for cushioning, ya know? Kathy

try asking ©Illinois Natural History Survey Send Questions and Comments to:cbdadmin@inhs.uiuc.edu. i emailed several years ago about the illinois chorus frog status. they replied very quickly. at least, i think it was them.

Nope, not a GTF...after toads, we have more GTS here than anything else this time of year and I am totally familiar with their calls, especially when it's a droughty year and they make those calls from under the rim of the toilet. They can certainly locate the nearest water when necessary. I actually found the suspect making the new calls the other day and it sure looked a lot like one of our chorus frogs, and I know their springtime clicking-the-teeth-on-a-comb call. One thing I don't know is what their non-breeding calls are like. Do they have a rain call? This thing sure could put out a lot of noise for such a small frog.