Uncle!

o The Stuart News dated 7/20/2008 has an article titled '28 immigrants detained in St. Lucie Inlet', "...believed to be from Cuba. ..." This week's journalism described an influx of Cuban frogs.
In fact, the standing water in the nearby preserve-type setting (after Tropical Storm Fay) has become the launch-zone for dozens of tiny, dime-sized frogs leaping about in the tall grass and trees between Kingswood condo complex and Ocean Palms retirement complex. One scaled a window at this unit; others are leaping about the sidewalks involuntarily as people walk past. It's a sad situation because it is easy to avoid them when walking alone on the sidewalk, but when other pedestrians approach the tiny amphibians flatten and collapse on the cement.

Flashback to springtime in the western PA mountains, where is generated an influx of tiny peeper toads, also hatched from eggs deposited in the standing water which puddles as a result from sunlight melting snow plus thunderstorm rainfall. Thousands of tiny hopping toads move throughout McKean County, warming themselves on forest-lane asphalt and congregating near blackberry/raspberry bushes and wild cherry trees.

o The Jacksons are scheduled to perform a 'reunion' show in southern FL this year. But, today's Internet journalism describes an earthquake in southern Iran, "...shaking Dubai...across the narrow Strait of Hormuz from the United Arab Emirates". Dubai is described as having some of the world's tallest skyscrapers, and the UAE have been described as a Michael Jackson post.

o A man fell off a barge this morning in the St. Lucie River near the Roosevelt Bridge where the two forks diverge. He was said to have been reaching for a tool, according to Internet news posted at http://www.topix.net/ from http://www.palmbeachpost.com/. Flashback to San Francisco, CA, where a realty 'handyman' exited our small rental apartment with the family screwdriver one day, and sometime later may have been found drowned in San Francisco Bay.

The only unusual circumstance here near Kingswood was a mango seed drying out on the sidewalk of St. Lucie Boulevard just past the intersection with SE Ocean Boulevard, with a crushed fruit nearby. As an offering, the combo was tossed into the slough further south from the intersection, with the hope that the lost man will surface soon.

We'll see.