| | A close buggy look
How is everybody? I haven't been in here nary a-tall lately. Been busy with projects and life- it's all wonderful stuff, but has pushed blogging back to the back cobwebby corner. Blogging moves in cycles, doesn't it? I'd like to come around and see everyone!
Husband found a dried, opaque skeleton of a praying mantis. Or is it a shed skin of one? Do mantises (manti?) shed their skeletons?
Here he is. Doesn't he look like Hans or Franz? (that's fabric paint on my fingers- still working on the sunpainting)
Here is it's eye at 30X under the microscope-
This is his mouth in the lower left corner, part of his antenna running along the top edge of his mouth, and then his eye in the upper right corner...
Here's his spiny arm spines- still through the microscope at this point.........
Hans/Franz now occupies a sweet potato leaf growing on my kitchen windowsil. He keeps me company while I do the dishes. He listens really well, but doesn't contribute much in return. A good, quiet friend. 
Happy Autumnal Equinox, everyone!!! Glorious Fall----breathe it in!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Son is really taking to reading with the Owlboy books this past month! He just giggled his way through this second book in the series a few weeks ago, and finds books previously too difficult now readable! Yippee!
(and can I do a little celebration jig? According to Amazon, the reading level of this book is age 9-12. Son is reading at "grade level"!!!!!! I am so deeply proud of him!! I'm dancing in the street!)
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| | Posted 9/22/2007 8:12 PM - 7 views - 7 comments
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