I dribbled the last bits of pancake batter into two small pancakes with one blueberry each because this really amuses my youngest. As I’m watching them cook, I realized they were watching back and smiling. How’s quarantine going for the rest of y’all?
We have a nice little patch of evening primrose in the meadow that has returned. It looks like some of the other wildflowers have reseeded themselves as well, which is ideal!
I found a very interesting caterpillar in the yard, definitely looks like something to avoid touching. I tried identifying it with an app, but there were no caterpillar pictures to compare to (turns out the second hit was a Question Mark butterfly, so my trust is restored). So I turned to image searches for “spikey caterpillar Texas” which lead me to butterfliesandmoths.org. Yup, bookmarked it, after finding a very similar looking caterpillar and cross referencing another image search on “question mark caterpillar”. I frequently do a kind of reverse search once I think I’ve found my answer. It is very interesting what I sometimes find. Mostly it confirms, but sometimes it debunks. This confirmed and gave more caterpillar pictures that matched my little guy.
Fishing whole tea leaves out of tea is not ideal. I don’t have a tea ball, but I did have the idea of clipping the leaves together! I opened up one side of my wire clip so it could hang on my cup, then rather than tear the leaves off the stem, just clipped the stems together and hung them in the hot water in the cup. It works!
Is the mask on the right a little small? Yes, yes it is. It is for my youngest’s doll. We put the mask on the doll first, then put her mask on. Just in the house, just for a minute, just to start adjusting to the idea. My youngest wears glasses with a strap and has hearing aids, so no “behind the ears” elastic for her; she has enough going on behind there. These are unused shoe laces that I found in my stash (and they’re pink, so perfect). The loop goes behind her neck, then the ties tie behind her head. It works. We all now have cloth masks, and will start wearing them a little at a time to get used to them. Turns out my eldest needs this gradual introduction too. I was not expecting her aversion to mask wearing. So here we go, taking it easy, one baby step at a time.
Critters and Craft 