September 19, 2000

An unwelcome visitor.

Fauna of the Holy Land Update: Our latest visitor was this pretty little scorpion. We really didn't want to kill it, but we didn't want it cohabitating with us, either. So now we've learned not to leave the door open.

We have heard concern from many people about the ruthless "skeeter" bites on Elizabeth. No, we don't have malaria or West Nile virus. Fortunately, our electric mosquito poison thingies seem to work (and we are blissfully ignorant of their toxicity, which is described in Arabic and Hebrew).