I’m off the grid at the moment – visiting my parents in Myrtle Beach, SC where they have a timeshare. I’ve scheduled entries to post every morning at 6 am (central US time) Monday through Friday, so you won’t have to go without your daily entertainment courtesy of moi. They’re all picture (mostly cat) entries, high on pictures, low on words. Just the way you like it!
I don’t expect to be able to check my email or Facebook or anything, but I’ll probably post to Twitter every now and again, so you can check there. Be good, and if you can’t be good, take notes and tell me all about it when I get back! 🙂
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BUGS! Tuesday
(Note: There are kitten pics, if you’d rather skip the bug pics. They’re not THAT scary, wimps. Also, Elayne, no frogs. I promise.)
Praying mantis. We almost never see these around here, I’d seen maybe three or four in the five years we’ve lived here. I think they’re really neat, but they kind of scare me.
Young assassin bug.
Hanging out on the rain gauge (which is dry).
I think assassin bugs are really kind of neat-looking when they’re little.
Also, they eat flies, which is A-OK with me.
They can hang out in the rain gauge forever, as far as I’m concerned.
BUT.
When they get big and ugly
and hang out on the okra and eyeball me like they’d like to chew my face off
then I’d kind of prefer them to move along, thanks.
MOTH SEX. Didn’t know you’d be seeing insect porn today, did you? (I assume they were mating. They were attached at the back end, in any case.)
Web. I don’t know where the spider was. Maybe she gave up and left because the assassin bugs were getting all the flies.
They really do love that cat tree an awful lot.
Especially the hammock part.
Leapin’ Molly.
Charlie Peppers in the sun.
Alice is exhausted from her perusal of the Gardener’s catalog.
She’s a Ham-mick loving monkey.
Alice has a theme song. It goes:
Alice Mo
the calico
sure does love
her daddy!
If I could sing at all, I’d totally record that for you. I need to look into getting me one of those Auto-Tune programs!
Previously
2010: Yes, that IS an eye booger on his cheek.
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: I was so concerned for their safety that I ran and got the camera. Ahem.
2006: But there’s no horn on the lawnmower!
2005: Did you feel the earth shake too?
2004: No entry.
2003: No entry.
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: My breasts are strawberry scented.
1999: I was ambitious today.
Robyn, you are the best! Thank you for arranging for us to have our regular fix while you are off vacationing.
And I have a one letter editing suggestion for Alice’s song:
Alice Mo
the calico
sure does love
her daddy-O!
I didn’t know assassin bugs had that cute stage. Have you ever been bitten? I had one in my jacket once and I got bit on the arm.. it felt like a nail going in my arm and then the swelling. My arm got huge and I had to take a bunch of Benedryl. So, be careful where you lay your jacket down!
Have fun at the beach!
I KEES you! *MWAH* With beeg keeses.
I swear to the God in whom I don’t believe, my eyes were reading “skip the bug pics” and my brain was saying, “Hmm, if there are bugs, there might also be frogs,” and then – boom! – it’s like you read my mind, IN ADVANCE! What would that be called, prescient telepathy? You’re GOOD, Robyn, you’re really really good.
That’s SO cute about Alice’s song – do you sing it to a particular tune? We do the same with our cats but usually we substitute their names in a popular song. For example, Abby has her own version of the Lady Gaga song ‘Alejandro’ titled ‘Abbyandro’ (don’t wanna kiss, don’t wanna touch, Abby-andro) because she’s a standoffish little monkey sometimes 🙂
I sing Ruby Scooby Doo to our Cocker Spaniel Ruby to the tune of the Doobie Doobie Doo portion of Frank Sinatra’s Strangers In The Night. She’s the only one with her own song so far and I feel a little gulity for that bit of favoritism. Do other cats have a song? Ruby also has the Kenny Rodgers Ruby song but she came with it. Her “daddy” in her rescue family gave it to her because she arrived hugely PG from sneaking out and “taking her love to town”.
M.R. – That was my thought exactly on Alice’s song. I just automatically added the ‘O’ onto daddy when I read her song in my head. Great minds think alike!