Oh man, this is brilliant! Our dryer vents into the carport, 4 feet from the main entrance to our house. My doormat stays covered in lint. The super slippery condensation on the concrete every time the dryer runs is just the cherry on top.

Will you DM me so we can chat shipping, etc?

I'll start negotiating with the children f and see who they haven't fallen in love with yet.

I keep finding more 😅

And I found more flutter ponies - one is missing her wings though.

Here's the rest of the round up.

Looks like it! Took her outside for a better photo.

I just read an absolutely delightful book by a firefly researcher - Silent Sparks by Sarah Lewis. Great writing, and absolutely chock full of everything you never knew you needed to know about firefly sex.

I once ran a nature center field trip for a 1st grade class - their teacher had all 25 of them clicker trained to stop, go silent, and look at her instantly when they heard the click. I've never seen anything like it before or since.

With extra sharp cheddar cheese and crushed Lays potato chips on top.

I cooked it tonight. 😂

We just got back from a trip to Arizona, so I'm introducing our new petrified wood to the homegrown Mississippi stuff. (Not from the National Park! From one of the totally not shady dig your own places just outside the National Park.)

Hattiesburg, MS has one like this - there's a sign by the highway that just says "BONSAI."

When you get to the door you call a number and maybe the old guy who owns the place will mosey over from his house and let you buy some tiny trees. It's incredible.

Oh, I'm a member! Felder is an amazing resource. I've just been busy trying to get the rest of the property into shape before I dive into peony land. We have 7 acres that we're working to bring back from about 15 years of neglect.

Oh, lovely! I miss the peonies we inherited at our Kansas house. I haven't tried to find what will grow in Mississippi for our current place yet.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

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My kids love our house jumping spiders - I gave them names and now they're friends. "Oh look, it's Phil!" "Oh look, Phil caught a fly! Thanks, Phil!" Phil is great.