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May 08, 2006
Here, there, everywhere...
I've got a busy day today of dentists trying for the second time to adhere my new crown into my head...second times the charm? and I may have a couple of things to post for ya'll later, it all depends on how they come out of the kiln...
The storms just keep on coming...and waking me up in the middle of the night...i love storms, but man, I'm tired...the past 5 days, waking up around 3:30am is not the best way to start the day...bah...
We are glad that '24' and 'AI' are winding down...we are spending too much time watching tv during the week...time to get a life..
The garden is looking good...a few replacement plants to put in, the swallowtails put the hurt on the bronze fennel, so we bought 3 more for the next batch..and next week we're putting in some pipevine so those swallowtails start coming around...butterflies are free...
Posted by Donner at May 8, 2006 09:06 AM
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Hi Donna--what is that red caterpillar looking thing in the picture? Is that from your garden? I've never seen a red one before!! Your yard is like a nature walk or something, LOL. Have a good one--Rachel
Posted by: Rachel G. at May 8, 2006 11:54 AM
that's the pipevine swallowtail caterpillar...we saw LOADS of these on Sunday at the butterfly garden in our favorite nursery, and decided we need to plant some of the pipevine to bring them into our yard...we're gonna do that next weekend...the butterfly looks alot like a black swallowtail - mostly black w/ blue on the tail and some orange dots on the underside - but the caterpillar is so very cool...the ones we saw were much darker and the spikes were bright red...i grabbed this pic from the 'WhatsThatBug' website I posted the other day...that's a cool place to just hang out and learn about bugs...i'm weird...
Posted by: donner at May 8, 2006 04:12 PM