From last weekend:
a cherry slug sawfly that I found on a plum tree. I suppose a plum is close enough to a cherry.
it's amazing how glassy they look (or like a cola-flavored gummy?)
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did you know that peening hammers are heavier than regular ones, especially when applied to the corner of a thumb?
Feeling profoundly weirded out that, despite the amount of outdoor work I've been doing trudging in tall grass, I haven't gotten bitten by a single mite yet.
The lack of seasonal cues (itchy or otherwise) is really unsettling.
stg the fastest way to blunt a mowing blade is to run it through gopher-churned sandy clay soil*
*soil comes with bonus blade-shipping rocks
well I guess I finally found that one neck muscle that I can blame for the pain in the back of my left eye.
From this weekend:
There hasn't been a single Johnson's jumping spider that hasn't made me feel a bit judged, this one included.
At first I thought "what a weird ootheca"
but no, not a mantis egg case but silkworm cocoon.
Ceanothus silk moth, Hyalophora euryalus.
Still baffled by how tater tots tile perfectly in a 9x13 baking dish as if the two were designed together