MOTW-May 20-May 26 2012-Lynn (flybyferns)

[frogluver]

Congratulations to this week's MOTW, Lynn (flybyferns)!!!

Can't wait to here more about you!!

[frogluver]

Monday, tell us all about you! We know you obviously like amphibians, but we want to know about the rest of your life.

Details about you, your life, hobbies, families, past times, favorite colors, poems you have written etc etc....just use this post to brag/boast/bore us how you please.

[flybyferns]

Monday, tell us all about you! We know you obviously like amphibians, but we want to know about the rest of your life.

Details about you, your life, hobbies, families, past times, favorite colors, poems you have written etc etc....just use this post to brag/boast/bore us how you please.

Good Morning FF Friends,
Well here I go, I have not had my coffee, so bear with me.

I am flattered to have been nominated for MOTW. After all, this is Frog Forum. I have enjoyed everyone’s company since joining in Sept of 2011. I am a newbie here. There are so many knowledgeable members. You have all taught me so much !!! I will use this opportunity to say Thank You !

I will try my best:

I was born on Long Island, NY on March 31, a long time ago ! That’s all the information I will be disclosing about that !!!!! I have lived here all my life. I am a homebody, but an adventurous one. My elderly parents are here, as well as my 4 siblings. I am 2 of 5. I am a Registered Nurse since 1979 and have specialized in caring for people with diabetes since 1986. I married my high school sweetheart in 1981. We have one wonderful, wonderful son who is 24 years old who fills or lives with ongoing delight!

I am a very busy person and never really sit much:
- I love gardening. I have a special area in my garden I have devoted to plants for raising Monarch butterflies of which I have done every summer for many years. I have released hundreds over the years!
-I like to sew and create beaded jewelry.
-I have collected dolls and teddy bears all my life. I sew and crochet for dolls, and in fact sell doll clothes on eBay made by myself, my older sister, and my Mom. Check it out , if you would like to see what we do: Helen Kish Doll Clothes - Handmade Doll Clothes for Riley Kish and Friends . The site needs my updating though. There will be a link there to the current and weekly items for sale on eBay.

When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a vet. I don’t recall how I ended up going nursing school ?
I am a novice naturalist. I love animals and creatures of all kinds. You know, one of those people that does not step on a spider or who catches the moth in the house and throws it back out the door. It was very, very difficult for me to feed crickets to my frogs !!!! Once in a while I save one !!! If it looks really cute to me - I release it . Since childhood, I have probably owned every domestic pet a person could. You name it. I’ve had it. ! I don’t know how my parents put up with it ! I used to sneak them into the house. Here’s a story: I was about 12 years old. I spent the winter feeding a stray cat. She was solid white and deaf. I named her “Cloudy”. During the cold nights I used to sneak her into my room at night through the window. One night, when the weather started getting warmer, she was really persistent about my taking her into the house with me. Smart cat! Yes, she had kittens that night in the bottom drawer of my dresser. Boy was I in trouble. I spent months standing in front of a local supermarket trying to find homes for her 4 kittens. I got to keep ‘Cloudy”, of course.

I have always had cats. Cats are my favorite. No, frogs are my favorite. No, I guess cats. We have two Burmese now, a sable and a blue. I also have a hamster, a Russian Tortoise and two fish tanks with Discus.

I spent my summers as a child in the Catskills in upstate NY since I was 10 years old after my parents had purchased property from a farmer. There are many acres of mixed deciduous forests, pines , beautiful fields, a bog, and a 2 acre pond. I cherish the still pristine property there. Talk about frogs! I have seen huge bull frogs near the edges of the bog. We used to fill a bath tub with the common green frogs from the pond! I think I may have held every reptile and amphibian native to New York? Well maybe not all of them? I have never, never taken an animal from the wild as I am very much against it ! As I child we were always allowed to collect them and but had to release them by the end of the day.

I believe that all of us that love animals have to be “good” people. One of my favorite things to do after
a long week is to wind down with my family and pets. I only hope kindness is felt day to day by those I love and in my work as a nurse as well.

Whoops , I almost forgot.
My favorite color is green.
And, I do not like cold weather. I like it 80 and humid ..............like a Red Eyed Tree Frog!!

Well, by for now

[Kristen]

It's great learning more about you Lynn
I like the story about Cloudy! It's so cute.
The dolls clothes you and your family make are amazing, your really talented!

[GrifTheGreat]

Jerrod-

Hi Lynn.

Its good to learn more about you.

[flybyferns]

Jerrod-

Hi Lynn.

Its good to learn more about you.

Jerrod !
Thank You
Grifs ' have been great company !
Especially on our "Trouble in the Enclosure" tread .

By the way I have an important trap question. I will PM you later.

[flybyferns]

It's great learning more about you Lynn
I like the story about Cloudy! It's so cute.
The dolls clothes you and your family make are amazing, your really talented!

Thanks Kristen !
I hope you enjoyed the dolly gallery !

[Heatheranne]

I loved reading about you & your family. You can definitely tell you're an animal lover. You've been a blessing to this forum .

[flybyferns]

I loved reading about you & your family. You can definitely tell you're an animal lover. You've been a blessing to this forum .

Heather,
Again, thank you for all your kind and caring comment! It always helps !
Nurses are kind of a BIG deal! Right ! With out us just think what would happen ! Yikes

[Heatheranne]

Lol! Always here to lend an ear to my good friends .

P.S. Your doll clothes are so cute! Of course, now my daughter wants some . I told her maybe after she does her chores .

[Heatheranne]

Wonderful news, Lynn . I hope She loves her new friends.

Can't wait to see pictures of all of them .

[flybyferns]

Wonderful news, Lynn . I hope She loves her new friends.

Can't wait to see pictures of all of them .

Thanks Heath,
They are adorable ! They arrived safe and sound.
They are all sleeping dreaming about crickets !
It will be months before they are together though!

[Heatheranne]

Awe

[flybyferns]

Good Morning:
Sooooo, Wednesday is show and tell day !
I am suppose to wow members with pictures, videos, sound clips.
I have decided the photos I will be sharing are right here on frog forum.
So, please hop from link to link.
I hope you enjoy!

Waiting- Nursery/ quarantine enclosure

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...s-waiting.html

Most recent photos

5/22/2012- they hunkered down on pothos leaves yesterday and never moved.
They have jet lag! They flew all the way form Novy’s lair in Ohio !

My new babies * **

http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/...them-grow.html

My vertical conversion – that turned into following “Boggie” ( frog anorexia)
She is getting better! But still giving me a hard time since the beginning of March !!!!

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...moreletii.html

Red Eye Tree Frog enclosure:

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...exo-terra.html

My Albino Red Eye Tree frogs- Comet and Luna

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...ree-frogs.html

The boys and girl. :tranquility: The boys- Ruby- (my 1st frog), Cricket, Monkey( my rescue), Luna(my little Christmas cookie), and Comet ( my only female)

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...ree-frogs.html

“Boggie”

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...moreletii.html

“Luna”- shedding

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...-shedding.html

My “other charges” ( including some Discus spawning pics )

http://www.frogforum.net/members/fly...r-charges.html

Tank- the Russian Tortoise ha!

http://www.frogforum.net/off-topic/1...oise-says.html

“Gourmet Crickets”

http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...-crickets.html

Thanks for looking!

[frogluver]

Hey Lynn.....sorry about not creating a post for Wednesday! I got wrapped up in some things and didn't have a chance to post.....

[frogluver]

You take some great pictures Lynn! Thanks for the awesome share! You sure "wowed" me

[flybyferns]

You take some great pictures Lynn! Thanks for the awesome share! You sure "wowed" me

Thank You, "wowed" is good .
i Phones are great. Good enough for me!
I don't own a regular camera.

My A. moreletii ---- babies about 5 minutes ago.--- I had to change the paper towel.

[flybyferns]

Hey Lynn.....sorry about not creating a post for Wednesday! I got wrapped up in some things and didn't have a chance to post.....

Autumn,
No problem ! You explained everything very clearly and I had the instructions/post .

[Heatheranne]

Great photos and pets Lynn!

[flybyferns]

Great photos and pets Lynn!

Thanks Heather !