• Saturday, September 9, 2006 - Bagworms!
Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis
Sigh. They're easy to mistake for a small, spindly pinecone. Amidst leaves and twigs and such it's easy to not spot them at all. I wish I had taken a picture to share. Back in July I spotted one - then several - then many - in a side garden that has several different types of plants within it. All of the bagworms were on the Indian Hawthorn bushes, however. Apparently a favored plant. I started pulling them off and quickly realized they meant business about hanging on so I grabbed my pruning shears and made the task easier. I filled a small box with them. They kept trying to escape by crawling out. I ended up counting them. 78. Off of three bushes I pulled 78 of the sneaky things! Very good camouflage these bagworms have in order to not see 78 of them set up shop.
Check out the picture in the top link. If you see one - there *are* others, be warned! |
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• Monday, March 6, 2006 - And yet another sign spring is here.
• Monday, March 6, 2006 - They're back! It happens every spring.
• Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - Check this out!!! Albino Fawn!!!
A friend of a friend of a friend (lol) sent this to me in email.
(for reference Bolivar Peninsula is near Galveston, TX)
Albino Fawn from folks who live on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas
A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience!
Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Moma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark...
Well,, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but going to send him to a Rehab farm, at a vet that we have never gotten along with... So, one of Dad's best friends is our Game Warden. Kinda reluctantly, but, I called him and told him the deal. He came right over, of course... and assured me that he wouldn't take it to that vet, that he was going to 'go to higher levels' than that with him.. So, he is gone now. We got a lot of pix, and something we will never see again probably, so it was very cool. Maybe he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho. but, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either ; But, here are a couple of pix to show ya. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that??
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• Thursday, February 23, 2006 - Cyanocorax yncas - Green Jay
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About Me
Curriculum Materials We're Using in 2006-2007
• AO LifePac Bible 7
• Exploring Creation With General Science
w/companion CD
• WriteShop I
• AO LifePac Math 7
• The KJV Bible;
+Nelson's Complete Book of Bible Maps & Charts;
+Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History;
+McGraw-Hill's The Complete Book of World History
• Audrey J. Adair's Basic Music Theory (Unit 1) & Reading and Writing Music (Unit 2)
• Mona Brookes' Drawing With Children;
+Barry Stebbing's How Great Thou Art;
+Paul Taggart's The Essential Painting Guide
• Dad for Spanish ;-)
+Instant Immersion ASL Deluxe software
~Also Beginning To Dabble In~
Christian Logic with the Bludorn's The Fallacy Detective and The Thinking Tool Box
~And anything else our little heart's desire as we go along!~
"Uncle Billy's Strings"
Vacuum Our Pool
Condition Truck Leather
List Plots For Sale in Herald
Continue Isaac/Ishmael Study
Pilates
Prep HST with January Work
Find J. Good Booklet
The Story of Movies:
The Day The Earth Stood Still
To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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