Yay — such a feel­ing of accom­plish­ment! I have pho­tos to share.  I was able to find another ‘bug in a t-shirt’, so I snapped his photo! I was told that he’s a Texas Cricket, but, as I men­tioned before, I can’t find any infor­ma­tion on that type of cricket.  Ear­lier this year, we saw […]

I can’t believe I hadn’t posted this before, but here it is now. One day, dur­ing the sum­mer break, the girls and I were in the “Mommy Store” — aka The Dol­lar Tree.  I love this store!!!  I have pur­chased some­thing from every aisle in the store, and still leave want­ing more.  It’s my first stop […]

Since Martha was able to iden­tify our mys­tery archi­tects, I was hop­ing to explore craw­fish a bit more. Quickly, my brain started stir­ring up ways to extend this study, so I had planned on hav­ing the kid­dies draw the mud piles, plus their inhab­i­tants. I have been lurk­ing at Har­mon­yArt’s  blog lately, and wanted to […]

So, as a fol­low up from yesterday’s post, I have pho­tos! Of course, I missed the baby lizard and the cricket wear­ing a shirt, but I did get some shots of the strange mud build­ings. and our strange look­ing water­melon: Now, if any of these “sight­ings” are, well, what any self-respecting South­erner should be able […]

We went on our Nature Walk today.  I didn’t have a ‘chal­lenge’ in mind, per se, but I did see some­thing that I wanted to inves­ti­gate. So, we went out­side and across the street to our neighbor’s back yard.  They have a ditch that runs along the side of their back yard.  Any­way, on Friday, […]