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From Kristine Fife, kristen_fife@yahoo.com , via Digital Eve.
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This sounds like great fun for the right person.

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-Some products and dishes containing cilantro. This involves some major brands, such as Trader Joes and California Pizza Kitchen ( Read more... )

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This is what we fished out of the pool last night (it's a rhinoceros beetle). Approximately life-sized. (No, not my photograph. I didn't want to harrass the poor half-drowned creature by subjecting it to bright lights and scrutiny.)

Perfectly harmless. We're still rather in awe of the thing, though.

I woke up covered with insect bites. I suspect bedbugs.

I love Arizona but I think it hates me.

Besides dozens of fence swifts . . . several skinks, a placid spiky lizard whose name I have to look up, many hummingbirds who snickered at me and darted away whenever I pointed a camera at them, a tarantula hawk wasp, a three-inch long stag beetle, a four-inch long lubber grasshopper, a three-inch long katydid, a skunk,a tree frog, countless bats ( Read more... )