Yeah!!! It's cooler ...

... we're down into the upper 80s!

Now to catch up on a few things ...

I'm melting . . . . . . .

. . . . and it's too hot to blog, read/write e-mail, bead, eat or sleep. We've had record high heat since Saturday (95F, 98F, 102F and 106F today), and it's predicted to be 104-106 tomorrow. It's currently 79F at 12:20am! Will be back soon (Friday / Saturday) once the high temps drop into a 'reasonable' range (80-90F). Just too hot without air conditioning to run the computers for long. Stay cool!!!

Pacific Tree Frog

The Pacific Tree Frog, or Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla), is a teeny-tiny frog with a GIANT voice. I enjoy their songs -- other family members definitely do not. The adult frogs range in size from 2-3cm; the young frog above is about 1cm. He is pictured near a one-teaspoon measuring spoon, and this picture was taken just after losing his tail (August 2006).

The Pacific Tree Frog's "song" has been compared to rusty gate hinges, and is frequently heard as background noise for watery scenes in films. We first heard one or two frogs in February, but our recent warmer (52 degree) weather has prompted mating calls. The backyard and pond is a cacophony of froggy noise from dusk to well after midnight each night, and they only seem to stop when something large looms overhead. Springtime!

Snow Day

Nila and Rose sunning on the deck last summer

We're experiencing typical Pacific NW weather today -- sun, rain, snow, hail, temperatures in mid-40s.

So this would be a good time to remind myself of the sunshine we should be seeing more often in another month or so.