We had an uninvited guest for dinner last night! Larry & Pat came over for a BBQ, and Larry and Ralph were outside (now, why they were sitting outside when it was 103 is a different story!) and Larry noticed they had company. It was one of the smallest Preying Mantis I've seen! He hung out with them for a while, and then they put him over in the bushes, where he might find himself some dinner, as they didn't plan on feeding him any of theirs!





We had a lovely BBQ - with steaks, pasta salad, fruit salad and marinated veggies, and some green beans fresh from the garden. I tried to keep everything cool, and as much done in advance as I could. It was still hot and sticky in the kitchen (in the whole house, actually) The swamp cooler does cool it down, but it adds a bit of humidity to the house, too. Yuck! Still, it was better than outside. The last we checked, our temp was 102.7! Better than the 108 they were promising us, but it was still hot.