Hi! Alive and here, just immersed in family, etc. Spent the weekend moving a flower bed, ripping up sod, icing my back (in that order, har) and soaking up LOST - I'm on ep. 3.8, so DO NOT SPOIL ME, OMG. Confidential to my sister Beth: I saw another of those things you pointed out. DUDE. I think the way to watch LOST is to catch up with it in one fell swoop. I'm bugged by a few things, but overall, I'm seriously enjoying the show.
Speaking of shows, my POLICE tickets came this morning - WHOO HOO!! I'm close enough to seeStewart Copeland's ball sweat all the on-stage awesomeness and I CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL WEDNESDAY, OMG. I have fic/emails/correspondence to catch up on, and if it rains later today, I'll be able to. (And since I suspect almost everyone out in LJ Land is doing summery things and not really paying attention to this joint, I don't think I'm hurting anyone's feelings? Don't mean to, at any rate.)
OH! I wanted to mention that all of our Monarch caterpillars (and Swallowtails, too) hatched, got massive, then started disappearing, and not in the "forming a chrysalis" way. We suspected a rat-fink of a Mockingbird as the culprit. We ran to the attic and got my "life-like" vulture that I use in Halloween decorations and set it up in the garden by the dill, where the caterpillars were. And all the birds disappeared. (My cats and Sally-dog, too, hahahahaha.) "Life-like" was an accurate selling point, clearly. Heeee! I'm trying to IS some weird moth/bird that appears at nightfall every night. Mr. S didn't believe my description until I dragged him out there and he made a "what on earth?" face like you see in the movies. MOTHRA. Or the most bizarre hummingbird I've ever seen, we can't tell. No, really! It has antennae AND a beak like a hummer. And it moves like a hummingbird, but has the body of a moth. WHAT IS HAPPENING? [ETA] It is a HUMMINGBIRD MOTH, derp. Thank you!
(I'm checking for Dharma Initiative labels in my neighborhood, heeee!) In the meantime, we keep singing "Mecha Robert Smith/HummingbirdMoth" type songs like on South Park. I hope you're all having lovely days!!! <3 <3 <3
Speaking of shows, my POLICE tickets came this morning - WHOO HOO!! I'm close enough to see
OH! I wanted to mention that all of our Monarch caterpillars (and Swallowtails, too) hatched, got massive, then started disappearing, and not in the "forming a chrysalis" way. We suspected a rat-fink of a Mockingbird as the culprit. We ran to the attic and got my "life-like" vulture that I use in Halloween decorations and set it up in the garden by the dill, where the caterpillars were. And all the birds disappeared. (My cats and Sally-dog, too, hahahahaha.) "Life-like" was an accurate selling point, clearly. Heeee! I'm trying to IS some weird moth/bird that appears at nightfall every night. Mr. S didn't believe my description until I dragged him out there and he made a "what on earth?" face like you see in the movies. MOTHRA. Or the most bizarre hummingbird I've ever seen, we can't tell. No, really! It has antennae AND a beak like a hummer. And it moves like a hummingbird, but has the body of a moth. WHAT IS HAPPENING? [ETA] It is a HUMMINGBIRD MOTH, derp. Thank you!
(I'm checking for Dharma Initiative labels in my neighborhood, heeee!) In the meantime, we keep singing "Mecha Robert Smith/HummingbirdMoth" type songs like on South Park. I hope you're all having lovely days!!! <3 <3 <3
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I don't want to be here today! *wails* Monday Monkey lives for the weekend, sir.
I'm not even there, and I am totally scared by the vulture and moth-creature!
Btw, we saw Kung Fu Hustle this weekend -- so very awesome.
*shakes tiny fist against injustice of the working Monday*
Okay, wasn't Kung Fu Hustle AWESOME? I loved that movie. Sweet, funny, cool all in one.
*covers you in netting to protect you!* You shouldn't be there today! I've decided there needs to be a company-wide emergency of getting home and snuggling with furry friends, ASAP. *loves*
Also, I just called the Extension Agency, and apparently the hummingbird moths (it's a real thing! It's linked! They're pretty!) aren't common here. HMMMMMM. I will be keeping the cats indoors to make sure there are no murders on my property for a few nights while it migrates!
Im in ur garden, sippin ur bluebells! :D
I am psychic, maybe. Or perhaps just bluebell fixated!
Sounds like a Hummingbird hawkmoth to me.
They look incredibly like real birds - I could hardly believe my eyes when I first say one and found it was a moth.
http://www.birds-n-garden.com/hummingbird_moths.html
Man, Texas has some fucked-up mothingbirds, yo.
Oooh, and if you follow the link in the comment above, you'll see what they look like. It's SO PRETTY in real life!
*clotheslinerape*
Yup, it's called a Hummingbird Moth, and it's one of the fancier bits of lepidoptera going. Or they are, since it's a whole section of moths. There's also this one giant moth up here which has a body like a tatooed mouse and huge eye-spot wings; I've only sen that one a couple of times, once when the elder offspring was about three; it scared him into hysterics with the weird.
I was five minutes later than I should have been posting this morning because I stood and stared at the hummingbird perched on the Clematis tanguitica trellis and staring back.
Julia, when I run out of words today, I need to do some rose-stuff
I bet the mouse/eye spot moth is beautiful. I'm a huge fan of moths, actually. They're so lovely! I'll be out at 9pm tonight to see if I can't get an eyeful of this one again.
I'll take Stewart and you can have Sting. :D
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I love your "Wild Kingdom: Adventures in Stoney's Back Yard" posts.