This is so cool. My friend, Jen, told me about this site over a month ago. It’s a webcam set up in Kruger National Park in South Africa. I’ve been checking it out occassionally, but tonight was the first night I actually saw an animal. I have no idea what it is, but there’s a […]
Filed under: Adventures on December 10th, 2005 | 3 Comments »
The kids and I headed out to the zoo today. Usually we meet friends at the zoo but this time we went solo. It was a nice. I was able to talk more with the kids (and now that Nathan is talking a lot more, that was really fun) and they had more say in […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Our last butterfly emerged from her chrysalis two days ago. Her rear wings looked underformed, but she flew all right. The photo was taken by Emily using an Intel CS630 – otherwise known as our webcam. In addition to being a webcam, she discovered it also takes pictures. The photos are not high resolution, but […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on October 28th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Our last cat turned into a chrysalis this morning while we were at church. This one turned out to be a bright green chrysalis. That gives us 2 bright green ones and 8 brown ones. I should have written an update to yesterday’s post. We were able to watch as our last cat attached himself […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 10th, 2005 | No Comments »
I ran some errands yesterday morning and cat #6 was a chrysalis when we got back. At 8pm last night we though #7, #8, and #9 were close so we let Emily stay up for a little longer. Unfortunately, the cats did not understand our schedule and we sent E to bed at 10pm without […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 9th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
As we were cleaning the kitchen last night, George said “If I happened to see another caterpillar that had escaped, would you want me to tell you?” Ha, ha, funny guy! No way was I wasn’t going to fall for that! Then he says “Well, what about this one that is crawling on our paper […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 8th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I just finished watching cat #4 turn into a chrysalis. It was truly amazing. Not what I was expecting at all! I will write more about it after I’ve had a few hours of sleep. Good night!
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 8th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Arghh, just as I suspected! Two of the cats formed their chrysalis last night as we slept. I REALLY want to see one change this year! But the advantage to having 11 cats is that there are 9 more to go. Two more are getting pretty close, so hopefully we will get to watch them […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 7th, 2005 | No Comments »
So the adventure continues. Tonight George walks from the bedroom hallway into the kitchen and says “Hypothetically speaking, let’s say I knew where the missing caterpillar had made his chrysalis, would you want me to tell you?” Silly boy! I knew he was just trying to pull my leg and make me think he actually […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 6th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Well, we seached the entire kitchen area last night and never found caterpillar #11. I hope she’s safely made her chrysalis by now. We moved the other 10 cats into the butterfly house. There will be no escaping from this container, but it’s a little harder to see them in there. Before we moved them, […]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on July 6th, 2005 | No Comments »