“Scorpion needed to get across the creek and asked the frog for a ride. Frog says, “I can’t trust you, you’re a scorpion.” Scorpion says, “Sure you can.” Hops on the frog’s back. Midway across, the scorpion stings the frog. Frog looks at him. “Why would you do that? Now we’re both gonna die.” Scorpion says…”I can’t help it. I’m a scorpion.”

Here in the predacious bug capital of the South, we enjoy regular visits from stinging, biting, and poisonous critters of all shapes and sizes.  Carnivorous arthropods do not top my list as welcomed guests, call me crazy.  Josh knows of my intense dislike of death on six or eight legs so he brings them to me regularly in glass bottles which could easily be knocked over or broken while I peer into their depths to witness a very angry fanged or stingered beast.  I hug my Epi-Pen like the only oar on a lifeboat. Read more

She’s No Chicken

August 30, 2008|Comments (24)

I know what you’re thinking: “Looks like a chicken to me.”

Well, you can just kick that kinda thinking to the curb because Menina isn’t afraid of anything.  Not one thing.  She fearlessly bogarts each morsel of food, defending it against Buttercup, Lucy, and Sarah Beth (who tower over her like Macy’s Day balloons… only armed with a beak and flapping wings).  Yet, she’s a blanced gal.

When she is not gulping down windfall cherry tomatoes, she’s attempting to hatch wooden eggs.  Tender and devoted, she happily forgoes nourishment to keep those eggs incubated.  She repeatedly nuzzles and turns those Hobby Lobby craft eggs, drapes her wings over the nest protectively, and growls at those who dare approach her nest.  Push her too far, and she’ll hop out on the ledge to tell you off.

Menina needed a nest full of her own eggs to hatch.  This glaringly obvious fact led us to purchase a little Bantam rooster from the Lee County Flea Market.  Josh and I could relate to the overwhelming need to fill that nest.  The need to have something worth protecting…  Menina’s needs hit a little close too home.

Enter the new man.  He’s going to make all of Menina’s dreams come true.  Well, when he stops being scared of her.

Perhaps we’ll just call it “a healthy respect” for her.

He’s terrified.