[Magdalen] Peepers

[Marion Thompson]

Well, here's to keeping your powder dry!  Sounds awfully soggy and 
not-nice for a lot of people down there.  You take care.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/18/2016 6:31 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> ...so much water around here the peepers are out like crazy, and some 
> deep throated larger amphibians too I know... Today Houston had record 
> rainfall and flooding again. My immediate area was relatively okay but 
> drenched... within a mile in two different directions the roads were 
> closed because 'bayou' / creek / drainage ditches were up 14' or more 
> and over the road surfaces even when the bridges usually are 'just 
> high' enough.  Wacky weather... and terrible loss of cars, homes and 
> belongings north, south, east and west of my suburban area NW of the 
> city by 20 miles.
>
> Lynn
>
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> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
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> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 5:03 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Peepers
>
>> I haven't heard any, although I'm sure if I walked down to the foot 
>> of the
>> hill where Conrad's cows are pastured and where the creek is I would. 
>> The
>> hassle would be in walking up that hill again.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:09 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yesterday, the weather was in the seventies, and the peepers were so 
>>> loud
>>> that my wife could enjoy them, her hearing deficit notwithstanding.
>>>
>>> I knew they were out and about since on one rainy night I came home 
>>> to find
>>> two of them climbing around on my front door. We have a couple 
>>> vernal ponds
>>> in back of our property, and they always come visiting in the 
>>> spring. Not
>>> sure what they seek.  I suppose it involves travel in hopes of 
>>> making more
>>> peepers.
>>>
>>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not 
>>> preserved,
>>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>>
>