Monday Morning Mealtime

OOPS! I forgot to post-date. Just pretend you didn't see this and come back tomorrow, lol!



Chillun's, it's been over 100° here for days and days and days. The humiture has been as high as 160°. Needless to say, I'm not getting out a whole lot. Fortunately, the wildlife is coming to me. This lovely spider spun her web just outside the stair rail. A few days later, she was gone. I found her right outside my front door, chowing down on a cicada. When I got back from a few local errands, it was gone! I looked aroound to see if she had stashed it somewhere, but found nothing. I can't believe [she] ate the whole thing!

Then again, we made pretty fast work of the blueberry cobblers I made a couple weeks ago. I wish I'd thought to shoot the whole process. It was so amazingly easy, I can't think why I don't do it more often. I experimented with this one... added a few banana slices in one corner, just to see how it would taste. Duller has pronounced it repeatable. The other one also had free-from-Publix raspberries. Now that I've revisited this, I'm gonna have to go find some fresh Joja peaches and maybe try a stovetop cobbler. No way am I turning on the oven! Hmmm, I'm thinking a little make-shift solar oven might be just the ticket. Anybody tried that?

Happy Monday, y'all! Have a JESUS-filled week!

PS - I give up trying to format this thing. It looked just right in the preview. Definitely not WYSIWYG.

Mystery solved

Everybody had the right idea. Jena was first to guess grasshopper. Sharp eyes, KellyRae, to spot the web. The spider caught this one under a banana leaf and feasted for several days before they both disappeared.

Mystery solved

Jena's right, it's an egg sac. The humungous orbweaver that planted it disappeared the day after I snapped this pic... nothing left but a piece of leg. Not sure I wanna see the skink what et that thang! =8-O

Mystery solved

Rich was quick to recognize this beautiful spider.

It was doing a fair job of blending in with the sand in our driveway when my evening walk nearly ended his existence. I didn't want to get too close, as I've seen some pretty nasty bite results. But he graciously posed, in the quickly fading light, for a few zooms. Had it been earlier, I would've gotten down on his level and tried for a nice portrait. However, the beautiful pre-spring weather has brought out, along with the hog plum and dogwood blossoms, a swarm of hungry sand gnats. I need to track down a new bottle of Burt's Bees repellent before I spend too much time out there. 8-}

Mystery solved

Suze got it! I really should hunt down all my field guides and figure out which orbweaver I've been snapping. She's a beauty, ain't she? I haven't had the heart to evict her, even though she's been way too industrious around my front door.