The Smiley Face Butterfly

Look at the head just below the antennae. Another photographer was taking photos of this butterfly and pointed this out....couldnt believe it.....no idea what the real name of the variety but we dubbed it the Smiley Face Butterfly. My kids love this picture and so do I - it just makes the butterfly look Soooooooooooo happy LOL!

One more creepy moment complements of tides?

Oh yeah...though this will post after the first one.....so in a survey at my DH's work they found out that their sleep patterns for the last three (?) days have been pretty DARN identical....slept like crap Sunday night and Monday night, but then Wednesday morning they all overslept soundly (this would be pre-cursor to the high tide thing)...today (or rather Wednesday night) everything was just fine again.......too weird for words....

Bad Karma Day

I actually hid from the world today along with my kids, which it turns out was a good thing apparently (really we were waiting ALL DAY for the pest control guy to come out and spray our yard). I know of three sets of bad karma today, though I am sure there may be more......

First was my mom, who has decided that bad things definetely come in 3s. First she was at a routine check-up and when asked if she had anymore run-ins with cancer (she had breast cancer quite a few years ago - zero level for those of you that know about it) and she said yes she had some skin cancer removed (again nothing too severe). She promptly realized it was a case of "open mouth, insert foot" because now it will report to any company that she might apply to for insurance (life, medical, etc). She could have kicked herself for it.
This was then followed by a trip to the bank to deposit a check at the ATM (a feat which normally works just fine).....the cotton-picking machine would not take a DEPOSIT! Hello since when have machines ever had a problem sucking in our money - it is usually the spitting back out of the money they object to......luckily this did end well, as she went to the bank instead and informed the teller of the ATM's odd behavior (yes they did believe her).
The third and final installment of this daily saga is that she called the last time and informed that her watch stopped (presumably the battery which she had replaced not too long ago I believe). At that point she decided to join us in our avoidance of the outside world and went home for an early dinner and bed.

I thought is was just her day, until my brother-in-law came home and said he had the worst day yet at his job.....computer tech......if I got this right, he formatted the tech supervisor's main computer accidentally (I shall have to ask about the accuracy of this statement as I am not at all sure I got the right person) --- lets just say, it DID NOT sound good......

Then to read my BF's blog to find out her day went to CRAP as well......
I am glad I stayed home today.....

Anyone else realize we are having an astronomically high tide - and I mean that literally not figuratively.....a high tide combined with a full moon (do you suppose it is closest in its orbit too?)...something like 2 or 3 feet higher than normal...doesnt sound like much unless you are on a relatively flat beach...then I would imagine it makes a big difference.....

Could they be related? Too creepy to think about.....

I hope for a better posting tomorrow....for me and for the rest of you who had a crappy day....

Pleistocene Park

Ok check out this article on MSN... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8983461/
Finally someone taking a proactive step to ensure that the food chains dont totally fall apart...yes we could keep developing more and more poisons to "rid" ourselves of the rats and the weeds but havent we proven that we are just finding new ways to poison ourselves by doing that? I applaud them for radical forward-thinking, and pray ferverently that people will hang around to listen to the hour-long version (see article)!

Wow has it been that long?

Oops! I was just informed by my BF that I am totally slacking on my blogging...so I logged on to see if she was right.....and yes it has been way too long since I was on... I plead sheer busy-ness as we are playing catch up with my son's skills for entrance into 3rd grade....I shall try to do better............