Silly Willie

Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
I just now found a peanut, found a peanut just now.

Well, maybe not a peanut, but my Bug and my parents did find a caterpillar and put it in a bug cage.

My dad did the research and found out that it is a Giant Leopard Moth.

3 weeks after that first picture was taken, it spun a web for itself and made a cocoon!
It started off like this:


Later that day, it looked like this:


And it has been that way since January 17! Now we are just waiting and waiting to see how it develops!  From what I’ve read, it could take till Springtime to come out, so I guess we get to practice our patience!

The loss of a pet

Bug’s first pet died this past weekend.  It was a tadpole.  My cousin had given us a habitat for it at Christmas, and then we ordered our tadpole from Ribbits Galore.  We actually ordered 2, but one didn’t make it in the mail.  The second one, Bug promptly named “Green Bean”.  It was supposed to turn into a frog within 90 days, but despite our best effort and instruction following - 6 months later we were just looking at an extra large tadpole.  It was still fun to watch and Bug enjoyed talking to it.

Well, Friday night R and I noticed it had finally given up.  Saturday morning, we broke the news to Bug.  To say she was devastated would be an understatement.  She was heartbroken!  I’m very thankful we got the kitties a week before so she at least already had another pet to attach to!
We held a burial service in the backyard, where R buried him in the back corner and Bug  completed it with tongue depressor headstones.
She was very sad, but seems to have moved on now.  Maybe we’ll try again if we get our hands on some real tadpoles rather than the mail order ones.  I’ve since read that there is a high death rate among them.

 
“Green Bean our family loves you”

We adopted!

No, not a child (yet!). This weekend, our landlord finally agreed to let us have a cat! So, we adopted a kitty from the SPCA! She is around 3 years old and just adorable! She is settling in and seems to be perfectly comfortable with us.

We went with an older kitty, instead of a kitten, for a few reasons. 1) Their temperament is known, as is if they lived with other cats or children before. 2) They often have a harder time getting adopted. and 3) The fee for adopting them is much cheaper if they’ve been at the shelter for over 30 days (as each of these had!)

Introducing……..


~ Angel ~
This little sweetie picked us out! She started rubbing on us and talking to us when we first walked in. Then, I set down my backpack for a minute and she immediately walked over to it, sniffed it, kneaded it, then made it a bed and fell asleep! R and I looked at each other and said “We’ve been adopted!” and brought her home!