One of my life long interests I’ve had is animals. While my brother tinkered away in the basement on his dirt bikes I could always be found at the river trying to to catch an assortment of critters. My bedroom was always occupied by a handful of fish tanks that held everything from fish to newts to tree frogs to giant millipedes. Although this never happened, we always joked that I was the kid in the outfield during a baseball game who missed a ball because an interesting bug crawled by. Yesterday while working on the new duplex we found a praying mantis! They seem to be pretty rare around here so naturally I took it home with me! We did a bit of research and determined that our praying mantis is indeed pregnant. I kept her for a day and then let her go, she wasn’t doing so well in the peach jar. I look forward to someday discovering new creatures in Africa with Canaan and marvelling with him at all that God created! 
The praying mantis attacking the camera V
On this day..
- Nous recherchons une garderie! - 2007
- Canoeing! - 2005
I love Praying Mantis’! We find them in our hard from time to time. THe kids all really like insects. In Africa you can go looking for those huge Rhinoceros beetles! Now that would be cool.
That’s such a coincidence because yesterday when I picked up the kids from school, I noticed a bunch of kids terrorizing some poor creature. I went over to discover that they were teasing a big ole praying mantis! This one was wheat colored though and I had never seen them in my area so I told the science teacher. I hope she rescued the poor critter!
That is so funny Norm and yes so very you! I think Kenny is just a little thankful he doesn’t have to share a room with swampjuice anymore!