Bug City

{almost} Wordless Wednesday Lots of bugs have stayed in my son’s  “bug city”…lightning bugs, wormy things, beetly-things, spiders *gasp*. But I did draw the line with the one below. He was too big, if not scary looking. But how cool is he!...

The nest is *sniff* empty *sob*…

What a cool experience to watch “up close” the life of a family of birds. If we were actively homeschooling right now this would have made for a great lesson series to notebook or lapbook.  I remember when they were just eggs 😉  and then they hatched and...

The BABIES!

{sort of} Wordless Wednesday. Its seems like it was just… well, okay, about 2 wks ago that Mrs. Robin laid these eggs.  Yesterday I found out they had hatched. So far they aren’t bothering us (the nest is on one of our windowsills). There were four, now...

You haven’t met Hairyee.

Brendan found this woolly bear caterpillar in April in our shed. He named him Hairyee 😉 They were so cute together.  Hairyee was pretty active I thought, for a caterpillar that is. And then four days later Hairyee spun himself a cocoon on a pinecone we had in his...