Snorty Saturday
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Smiley Saturday comes to us via “Lightening on Line.”
This is a new one for me but I thought it would be a good exercise in practicing being optimistic since I am a natural, die in the woods, pessimist, if not to say cynic.
If you need a hint about how to do this, you can check out “Marita’s” post over at “Stuff with Thing” on her post called, oddly enough “Smiley Saturday.” It seems to be a weekly review. Can you tell I’m a newbie?
It’s hard to encapsulate a whole week, especially when it was an extra short one with a ’service/ in staff training day’ but I can think of a couple of things, well maybe just one, that made me laugh this week. Well earlier this morning actually, just after six a.m.
My son found another free new friend, and he told me about it with words, in the garden, shivering, and he shared ‘her‘ which was not an accidental or random reference, and he used the word ‘green’ for the first time in 18 months, and he named ‘her’ ‘Hike girl!’ and he told me that she bites boy Praying Mantid’s heads off!
That made me snort.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Well, would you believe we just captured on of the aforementioned mantises in our house! It has been lurking around here for a few days, first spotted resting on the living room lamp.
It is now in a box on the front porch waiting for us to find it some food. I don’t even want to think what food it was finding IN our house!
September 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Frog is facinated with Mantis pictures – we don’t see them around here. What we do have a lot of this year are great big dragonflies. Apparently they can’t see the net surrounding the trampline, becuase then fly right into it and become a “captive audience” for the bouncers!
September 13th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
When I was a child I was scared to death of those things. I remember one night one had gotten into the house and we had a room full of company. The older women were determined to get it out of there… they called it the “devil’s riding horse”… I’ve heard others say it was the “devil’s walking stick”… Then when I finally had Biology in high school I learned they were preying mantises”. Now I’m not scared of them.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
oh my, i would be afraid to hold her!
smiles, bee
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September 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
oh bravo for him being able to describe it so well and knowing about them. and what terrific shots of him with hike girl! love it!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Get it off me! Get it off me! Having shrieking fantods over here just thinking about that thing touching my hand.
What, by the way, is the meaning of Hike Girl?
September 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Hello Maddy,
How did your husband like Hike Girl?
Cheers,
Jeff Deutsch
September 14th, 2008 at 12:45 am
That’s amazing your son would hold it! Nigel wouldn’t dare (nor would I)!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
A very belated welcome to Smiley Saturdays. I love the picture.