A weekful of thoughts

Feeling strangely vulnerable since a 24-count pile of empty plastic bottles has been removed to the recycling bin -- removed from a large but now-empty chest of drawers. With retaining pond and slough so very nearby the bottles were -- and others yet may be -- a potential emergency flotation line if bound together, not to over emphasize jaw-jamming possibilities near offended reptiles, fish and other creatures routinely captured and eaten.

It is eerie that gardenplace conflict between snails and salamanders seems to continue here in FL from CA; here the offenders only seem to be salamanders since some lizards carry mucous coating after the hurricanes. Like platoons, if the salamanders eat one snail too many, the snails will group and come after the eater -- perhaps the real reason why chemical compounds are sold to specifically control slugs and the GEICO lizard is now broadcast through TV and in print mass media. The interaction is ghastly -- salamanders appear to gulp snails before they are routed into the poison and as a consequence of supermarket sightings of escargot contained in plastic tubes; then other snails slide toward their nemesis and shred the flesh from their skeletal bones.

Whew.