It seems every year, there’s about a month in North Texas when all cats get a treat. This is that time.
In other news: A cartoonist we know, Zach Weinersmith, has unleashed a new Children’s Book. Having only read the beginning, I can state that it is OUTSTANDING.
When I was growing up in Texas, we called them “skeeter eaters”. I’m a substitute teacher in Florida now, and I have to persuade kids occasionally that they’re not going to bite or sting them, and that they’re not poisonous. They’re a hoot!
I’ve heard people call them “mosquito eaters”, and it annoys me because it ruins the rhyme and it seems so obvious that those clumsy things cannot hunt mosquitoes.