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  • and the winner...... of the Friday Bullet Blog Blockbuster Question, "what *is* this?" is none other than the very practical, wise, artistic, and in other ways talented, KellySAHM!!!! The answer is: beetle poop!!!!! …

  • Friday Bullet Blog Bugs: ` all experimental bugs have been transferred to a mason jar with compost at the bottom (for burrowing) and lush tomato leaves for dining. (a mason jar is the biggest container I have space for …

  • Ohhhhh.oohhhh... Who are the buggies in your neighborhood? (neighborhood tomato plant, that is) Well, Uncskainch talked me into (she got me excited about it, actually) saving some of the potato beetle larvae in a jar wi…

  • Tomatoes bugged by bugs...and garden science 2 weeks ago, I posted some photos of a curious (and beautiful) beetle munching on my tomato leaves. Uncskainch pulled out her field guide and thought it might be a milkweed…

  • Whataya do..... When it's really hot outside.... ....and the garden is sweltering and languishing... ..and the thunderstorms are all around you, but never make it to your place.... And the kids want to make cho…

  • a quote that just struck me in my reading...saving it here.. "Dualism.......Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life." -from Island p. 204 A. Huxley

  • Flutterby Peace We traveled to a neighboring town's butterfly garden last night. (-: We had a great time! Dh took the kids over to the playground down the street, and I sat and crouched among the flowers. It was ab…

  • backyard/kitchen science... This is so cool!!! the kids found an egg on the underside of a leaf today... And we decided to look at it under the microscope...... (these next two microscope photos were taken with o…

  • Thank you for those lovely comments on yesterday's photo! (I'm quite stoked about it!) It was one of those moments that was just happening, and I happened to catch it. It was early in the morning...all I had to do was …

  • Catching dreams...... Earlier this week, the kids and I watched a video from the library on making dream catchers. I got all excited. Ds has always had an interest in Native American spirituality and music and dress a…

  • Happy Birthday Betsy!!!!!!! (call you later!)

  • Look....it's Stanley!! Come see where he has been visiting!

  • Can anyone identify this little beetle bugger? He's about 1/2 inch long, and loves teh tomato leaves in the garden. he had a pal with him (just one) and both have been relocated elsewhere. Dou you know? And do you…

  • 2:29 am...... Sometimes it is a blessing to be awake at this time of night. (-:

  • mountains giving birth to thunderstorms. (-:

  • Moon trails, star trails, headlight trails...... More playing with long exposure! (I love it!) Moon trail: The bright shooting orb is the moon the other night...the exposure was 30 minutes, aperature as small as it w…

  • Ohhh! Ahhhh!! Happy 4th! We had thunder, lightning, rain and fireworks at the same time! The storm hit as our fireworks started...so we had lightning, thunder, fireworks and rain all at the same time..it was *great…

  • I'm......... too sexy for the floor....... too sexy for my paws...... too sexy for my paws...... too sexy for my tail...... too sexy for my ears.....go outside? Is that the door I hear???? I'm...... too sexy …

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