Both of us LOVE Elephants

 Having touched a baby elephant in person in South India even made us fall in love deeper with elephants.

We even love to wear elephants...

Me, September 18, in my Escada elephant outfit—complete with shoes and I forgot my jeans purse...

Pieter wearing his black Escada silk elephant tie.

Shown in a 2015 blog post: {Princess Diana's Elephant Tie just like Pieter's} ←click it.

If you scroll down you also see Princess Diana wearing her Escada elephant jacket in black versus mine in blue jeans below her picture.

Backside of my Escada silk elephant shirt.

Also elephants on the cuffs.

Such designers are artists!

Yes, I do have a silk scarf in that style as well.

Showing the embroidered elephants around pockets and matching elephant belt.

Had to take this picture of the belt buckle inside, not in bright, sunny daylight to show you that on the previous picture it was just some glare at the top.

Related link:

{We met 4 Baby Elephants in South India - Fuzzy and  Soft...} | previous post by me

Bandido (Dido) and Sacha caught a Crayfish Cambaridae

 Living with kitties is never boring!

They exposed us to wildlife we both never knew we had on our property!

Our 10 month old Dido brought this into our garage.

At first we thought it was a little crab...

Dido did run and was not letting us see it.

One of its shears was off and it also held its tail under its belly...

Dido's catch looked more like a Procambarus talpoides or Mole Crayfish.

Our almost one year old (on March 30) Sacha (Bandido's sister) brought one inside our bedroom at 10:00 PM.

This one was complete and now we clearly could see that this was a Crayfish or Cambaridae.

Crayfish are the food for bullfrogs, snapping turtles, raccoons.

Guess our kitties found them interesting living toys...

Quite interesting those 5 naughty kitty siblings!

How often I've had to 'rescue' some critters—and yes, I used to make that trip in the night across the lawn towards the creek. 

Have you ever seen a Crayfish?

Related link:

{R.I.P. SACHA GIRL} | previous post by me 

Part X - Cape Town, South Africa | previous post by me where we ate the best crayfish ever!

Bandido (Dido) found himself a Cicada

 Dido has always been a rather feisty kitty bandit; hence his name Bandido.

We rescued his Mamita from Acapulco and also his Daddy no doubt was Mexican.

So, on September 2 at 10:00 PM our 5 months old kitty Bandido did bring this into the living room.

At that time I had no clue what it was... a locust, a beetle?

He did not want to bring it outside, though once he brought it downstairs...

We always wonder how they manage to come through two cat–doors, then up the stairs!

Related links:

{CICADA} | previous post by me

Bandido (Dido) did bring us this just Morphed Cicada | previous post by me