Further up and Further in

It's watermelon season! You know what that means....mango season is on the way! The watermelon stands along the side of the road are funny...often there will be big round slices of watermelon hanging by strings from the trees, enormous piles of watermelons spread out beneath the trees. I like to think that the watermelon slices hanging by strings serve as a warning to the other would-be rogue watermelons. It could happen that I'm wrong, but that's the way I see it.



As it keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter....you get the picture...there are more snakes and scorpions and such lurking around the cooler places. Like the bushes and trees and piles of leaves by our quarters. Last Friday I was in our room, working on a project on my laptop, listening to some tunes, when, in the middle of a Frank Sinatra song I heard a screeching noise that I was sure wasn't Frankie. I looked up at our window to see a snake coiled around the grate over our window eating a frog. It's kind of disturbing to hear a frog scream. But I didn't want to enjoy the spectacle alone, so I ran and got Lisa and the good doctor, and the farm supervisor came along as well. We shared a nice moment looking at the lump of frog in the snake. It was just a harmless green tree crawler snake. Harmless to us, of course, not to the frog.

Poor frog. I guess.

I guess. What is the life of the frog about, anyway? Perhaps it was an exciting ending to a rather dull existence...