a red eft

[fish]

moving the wood today found TWO blue spotted salamanders and ...

A RED EFT !!!

life is grand.

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[ejoyce]

I had to google red eft. Cool.

Last fall I was having lunch at at a restaurant that used to be a pottery (Rookwood)

www.mtadamstoday.com/restaurants/rookwood.php

I felt something land on my head, I brushed it off and on to the table and it was a "Lazarus lizard' indigenous to Italy and brought to Cincinnati by a couple of the Lazarus owner's grandkids in the 50's. They like it here.

www.xavier.edu/magazine/read-article.cfm?art_id=1026

At any rate we scooped it up into a napkin, told the hostess who freaked and got the manager. He thanked me for not screaming or causing a scene and gave me a free lunch. So not as pretty as a red eft. But it's my lizard story

[fish]

very good for you. very well done, indeed, when one considers how the vast majority of folks would react to a salamander in their soup.

great class of people on this site.

during various times in the tropics, i have stayed at places where little lizards creep all over the room and are welcome too, since they eat the insects that eat us.

according to the book, blue spotted salamanders are rarely seen, but eft is such a great word.

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[Pam]

My lizard story isn't so classy. While staying at cabin #2 while the house was being finished kara went downstairs to go to bed and found a salamander in the living room. She jumped up on the couch and started screaming. Tanner and I ran down there at which time I joined Kara.

So Tanner got the fire place shovel and broom and swept it into the shovel. My job was to open the door for Tanner. I of course first moved the mini trampoline next to the door to stand on.

I'm a chicken what can I say. I did not however scream. I'm not fond of bugs or reptiles.

[Pam]

By the way Smoke I could not imagine reacting the way you did. Like I always say I want to be just like you when I grow up.

[Smoke]

That wasn't me!...it was Eileen, although I doubt I would have made much of a fuss over it either. I knew Eileen was so cool too!

[Pam]

See I am getting old lol I would not have been that cool.

[ejoyce]

Not screaming doesn't mean I am cool. I am conditioned.

My brother caught and kept snakes regularly when I was a kid. They regularly got loose. We kids had the fun of re-catching them in the house. I remember taking a note to my brother's teacher saying he would not be in school that day, and would not be back until the snake was recaptured.

As fate would have it I got my brother's payback and had a son who kept a corn-snake for several years, who also got loose on occasion. We have also had turtles, tree skinks, birds, fish and a dog. Now have two cats, Bad Boy Bruce (BBB - a fat, not too bright applehead Siamese) and Morgan (an all black female) and Hunter my German Short-haired Pointer (my sweetie).

[fish]

I congratulate your parents, and I congratulate you.

The kids would be out chasing around the lawn, and their mother would get upset about the damage.

She worried, I asked ...

"What are we raising here, grass, or kids ?"

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[fish]

last week N saw a black bear,

today i found a spotted turtle. these are now rarely seen

[Smoke]

I have a pesky mama bear with 2 adorible cubs running around by us.

also saw a turtle today as well as 2 last friday while fishing with my dad.

Little baby bunny too

I love this time of year just for that.

[fish]

i agree, this is a great time of year.

we watched a turkey hen bring her 12 chicks out of the woods and across the yard the other morning.

and the wildflowers !

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[Smoke]

My Kat.."Whiskers" thought he was going to have a snack one night last week. I saw the hen coming in with 2 "tiny" chicks...maybe a day or two old, I thought great I can get a pic. grabbed the camera and was waiting for them to come closer and out of the corner of my eye I saw whisk start towards them..I opened the door and hollered at him..he of course payed little attention to me. took another 2 steps and the hen flaired up, he ran down the side of the house...I had to laugh. So the 2 tiny chicks were safe for the moment.

I haven't seen many hens with alot of little ones, we've had such a wet spring/early summer I don't think alot of them made it.