I was cleaning up a little in my garage today when I noticed a small jumping spider watching me. I took a few pictures of him and he seemed to be just as interested in me as I was in him. As I took a little video of him, he must have wanted a little closer look. The video will explain the rest.
Of course, he didn't really attack me. He jumped onto the lense of my camera where he felt around for a second and quickly jumped back to the pool ladder where he had been sitting. I was so impressed with the way he was watching me, that I offered him a feeder cricket which he quickly jumped on and dragged to a spot where he could eat in peace. :]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
She did it!!
I came home from work today to find that our pet praying mantis Mimi has laid an egg! We're so happy since this is what we really wanted when we got her in the first place. The downside of this is that she probably won't live too much longer, although you would never know it by looking at her. She readily took a cricket from me and has been munching away on it for the past few hours. We will keep the egg safe throughout the winter and hope to see hundreds of tiny mantis babies in the spring.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
One last frollick
It won't be too long and a spider like this will be very hard to find. The cooler weather will make most of the wildlife, that I love to spy on, retreat into their burrows and tree homes. This orb spider was found just outside the place where I work. Now he has been relocated to my back yard hopefully to get a few last good meals before it's time to hunker down for winter.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
New Tenant
A friend called me today to let me know that she had found a snake in her basement. She wanted me to come by and get it. Of course I said yes. So I went to get it not knowing what kind it would be. When I arrived, I was given a shoe box and I could hear the snake inside crawling around and undoubtedly trying to escape. Once I got home and had a tank ready, I slowly opened the box. To my surprise, what I thought would probably be a common garter snake turned out to be this beautiful gray rat snake. I gave him the once over to make sure there were no stress injuries and then left him alone to calm down a little. I had planned on keeping the snake a week or two and then releasing him but after seeing what a wonderful speciman it is, I believe I'll give him a permanent home.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Meet Mimi
I found her in our backyard yesterday. She's a Carolina Mantis and looks to be an adult due to her size and coloring. We are going to keep her for a week or so to film her more and then release her. She's been eating very well and seems to be just as curious about us as we are about her. I'll post more (and hopefully clearer) pictures when I get some.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
IceAge - The Builder
Not even close actually. I don't consider myself a handy man of any kind. But I have been getting the urge to build somthing lately. I roughed out a plan for an aquarium stand that will consolidate a couple of my tanks with built in cord/tubing managment. I haven't desided if I want to build the frame from wood or PVC pipe. I like the way PVC looks when painted but I'm just not sure I can get the support needed for a couple tanks to sit on it. Here's a mockup I made in Google Sketchup. Any suggestions?
Monday, September 15, 2008
The obligatory "Still Here" post
Yup. I'm still here. I ALWAYS drop out of the habit of posting after awhile. I'm seriously thinking about writing a program will ask me "What happened today?" each night when I logon to my computer. Then using a little voice to text conversion, have it converted my spoken words and post them here. To be honest, there is most likely already a program like that somewhere on the 'net. But I digress... My wife has been out of town for the past 4 days so most of my time has been spent playing video games and watching movies. My favorite type of movie is horror. I've watched a few lately that I think are 'must see' titles for any real horror fan. The first that I'll recommend is Burnt Offerings. It's a movie from the late '70s in the same vein as The Amityville Horror. But I'll take Karen Black over Margot Kidder any day. Karen Black just seems like she was made for horror flicks. Check out Triology of Terror for another one of her classic performances. Another recommended watch is Donnie Darko. It's a very bizarr movie about a schitzophrenic teenager that keeps getting visited by a 6 foot rabbit. The story is actually very good even though it's sounds very stupid. Every day brings us one step closer to Halloween which is my favorite holiday of the year. So bring on the scares. You can always turn the lights on. :]
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