So last night I looked in on Waldo just after dinner time and found him in the standard âJâ position of a caterpillar preparing to pupate. According to the book, that meant he was due to pupate in 24 hours. This morning Waldo was still âhanging in thereâ.
Around 10:00 this morning I went downstairs to work on some beads, taking a peak at Waldo on the way by. I came up at 11:00 and discovered that caterpillars pupate a lot faster than I realized:
It really does look like I’ve got a new home lined up for Vogie. I’m hoping that later this evening I can spend some last quality time with her (not that she’ll appreciate it). The person who will be taking her sounds like they’ve put a lot of time into researching how to take care…
MRG and ADM: here’s the exact code I used yesterday for the thumbnail: <CENTER><A HREF=”http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/12117/ShoulderKitten1.JPG” target=”_blank”><IMG ALT=”Click on this image thumbnail to see it in its full size” BORDER=”0″ SRC=”http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/12117/ShoulderKitten1.JPG/1″></A> <FONT SIZE=”1″>Click on picture for larger view.</FONT></CENTER> The border around a graphic as an active link bugs me, so I remove that. I finally figured…
The soothsayers of precipitation foresaw snow, so last night I set the last of the old wood in the fire place. We had a half-cord delivered yesterday, because we were running low, and while it is nicely cured and ready to burn, last yearâs wood has gone from good to perfect and seems to take…
Last Wednesday I plugged my little Nook into my litte Acer to do a little download. Unfortunately, my Acer selected that particular moment to release its grasp on life and went to that great cyber-junkyard in the sky. I certainly got my money’s worth. For a little over $300 I got a 9″ netbook that…
Spent more time in the dentist’s chair than expected, only to discover that things had blown up at work while I was out. I’ve mostly gotten that resolved, but it has been an incredibly rough afternoon, and it looks like I’m going to have to give one guy a royal chewing out. Since he technically…
May fifth came and went, and I neglected to mention it was my second anniversary on Dear Diary. It seems so strange now to go back and read some of those earliest entries on the Salamander diary. I was absolutely clueless where I’d be two years hence, when the pressures on my life would take…
Now I would love to have seen a time lapse of THAT event. Who knew it was so fast???
Amazing!
Wow! From caterpillar to pupa in an hour? That’s really amazing! How long does he (or she) stay in this stage before becoming a butterfly?
Go Waldo! That *is* fast.
Oh, cool!
(Stupid hotmail put notifications in my junk folder, then stupid DD was down.)