I'm sorry your life turned out so hard, Eugene.

This here's a fly. They're aren't very amusing but if you look at his wings, they're pretty! And he has a nice shadow.

I saw this little guy flying lastnight near the cypress tree. I was so happy! I was pointing at it and telling someone (prolly just talking to myself) that I could get Jeffery out of the icebox finally. I sat out side about an hour ago and watched the lightning flash and the possum eat and looked around for this guy to fly by again. He never did. Until a few minutes ago when I heard the cat beating something up. I went out side and kicked the kitty away so the moth could get away but it just kept flying all crazy like in the same place. So I picked him up to see if he was alright. He wasn't. He only had two legs left and he was missing the lower half of his body. I took his picture, let him fly out of my hand and came inside so the cats could put the poor little fellow out of his misery. Fucking cats. Maybe I should keep Jeffery in the icebox forever! Nah. When I hatch him out, I'll take him down to the pond to live.

One time, someone asked me WTF a Jeffery was. Well, this is a baby Jeffery. I found him January 13,2007 near the pond. He was such a cute little thing. He spent January, February and March in a small aquarium stuck in my crisper drawer. I took him out of the refrigerator shorty after I saw another huge moth flying around. Sadly, that moth met a horrible ending.

Bright and early this morning, Casey woke me up and told me to come see something. And it was Jeffery!! He had hatched out during the night! He was so pretty. Big and fat with yellow wings with brown spots on them. He looked like old yellow leaves. Me and Kara got on the 4-wheeler and took Jeffery for a ride down to the pond. We found a nice place on top of a hill to let him go. He flapped out of my hands and flopped around for a while on the ground before he crawled up my finger. I put him on the side of a tree and he seemed happy. (If happiness is possible for a moth.)

aaaanddd!!

Good luck, Jeffery. I hope you live through the night.

We loaded up and headed out to the great outdoors to enjoy a nice day of 4-wheeler riding. Yes, out there with the scary sun. It was nice. We saw lots of snakes and a couple of turtles. I got in ant piles a couple of times. God damn those wild ants hurt. *shiver* but it was really pretty out there in some places. Flowers were blooming and there were bugs everywhere. Big water holes full of baby snakes and tadpoles. Yep. It was nice. I'll have to make a list of things to take with us next time we go though. Like kid sunscreen, kid food, kid water and a pillow for when kid falls asleep from boredom. And Benadryl spray for ant bites. And I'll have to remember to wear shorts because there is no climate control out there and it gets really hot. Here's like 2 pictures out of the 100 I took out there. I would put more up but I'm far too lazy.

Time for me to go look at things I want to buy. I'm in such a buying mood today. Too bad I can't get to town now. :)

I'm tired of these motherfuckin' ants in this motherfuckin' house.

They are everywhere. I've smooshed a whole army of them to bits while their friends watch. I've squirted dish soap on them. I've sucked them up with the vacuum. I've put little roach motels out for them. I've washed them down the drain. I've sprayed them with Easy-off BAM!. I guess the next step would be POISON. And that is the one I was trying to avoid. I don't wanna spray poison all in the kitchen. That's where we eat and play! Or maybe I can try fly traps.. I've been leaving a few little corner spiders alive to help out in the murder of the ants. They do a really good job but they work slow. Since the spiders have helped, they shall live out the rest of their lives in my corners. Maybe I should but up a little dirt jar motel with free food and water in it and the ants will stay in the jar. Like an open ant farm. I've had one of those before. They lived in a flower pot but eventually killed the flower in it.

Darn. I hear thunder. That means the internet will soon be gone. Da clowdz ar in da ayr blockin' muh 'net.

Today I tossed an innocent grasshopper into a spider's web. It didn't last long. In about 15 seconds the spider wrapped it up, bit it then went back to rest in the middle of the web. I am so ashamed that I did this. To make things worse, I flagged Casey over and made him watch me do it again. I'm sorry, grasshoppers. I won't do it again. Oh, and I photographed it.
Sick freak. I should be kicked.

American Garden Spider - Argiope aurantia

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I was playing with the photoshop gallery maker thingy. Here are some bugs, atypical deer skull and something the cat puked up.

I never knew just how interesting it could be to have a few caterpillars in a small fish tank until Kara decided they could not possibly live outside. I think we started out with 3 but it soon got populated with 8! I've been feeding them small branches from our wild cherry tree. They love them! There were a few days when I thought they were going to die. They would just be dangling off a branch looking all limp & pathetic.Then they'd wake up to eat, drink then go dangle some more. I think we've had them for about a week now. They were tiny when we first found them. Now some are longer than my finger. That's not saying much though... Last night I got out a bigger fish tank for our growing family. This morning, they were building cocoons. There are two full cocoons now and another in the making. I find myself wondering if they're making their little wormy houses because they are comfortable and well-fed in their man-made environment or if they're making them out of sheer desperation to find any way to remove themselves from this Hell I have created for them.