Egg Identification

A sweater will be posted this evening. I can't make one to fit my squid stinkhorn but I can make them for Billy's horns.

Ahh...Stinkhorn fashion at it's finest. I can whip these out in no time.

LOL!!! That is cute!!

Oh my GAAAAAAAAAAAAWD!
;o !!!!!

Ya'll challenged me!

Umm, your baby stinkhorns will have the ability to produce spores. Those spores are... er... uh.... unisex so could you whip up a little something in baby blue please?

I found this site-
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Stinkhorns.html
excerpt from this site which left me rolling on the floor-

My husband just stopped by me here and he has a message to relay to your husband. He says to tell your husband that it wasn't his wife that did something like incubating mushrooms... this time.

hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Ya know, if only I had done the tortilla warmer this story would have been even better.

I can make those sweaters in any color or size. I'll be taking oders over the internet soon. Everyone should have their own little family of stinkhorns.

Guess I won't be traveling to New Guinea any time soon.

And about that tortilla warmer.... come on now, admit it. If you could have picked one up without mail ordering it in time to "save" your baby stinkhorns... you would have had one.

By the way, with all the money you saved not having to refinish your dining room table... you've got a nice little nest egg (nyuk nyuk nyuk) set aside to go to New Guinea in the future if you want.

It's true, I admit it. But I would have had to throw it away after I found out what they were. Can you imagine using it to warm food in afterwards? Bleckgghh! I'm sure it would have given the tortillas a very distinctive and "earthy" taste.

If you could have seen the expression of my DD's face when I told her what we were incubating. If there's anyone who won't let me live this down, it's her. I'm being teased by a slew of kids now, thank you very much.

Look who's visiting my glass door tonight. Soon, I should have hundreds of these little guys....

Is that a moth or something? What do you have there?

It's a little tree frog! Again....time for a new camera. Come on birthday!!!!

Part of the problem with the picture is his reflection on the glass.

Starting around this time of year, we have to be careful when we open doors and windows so that we don't accidentally smush them. I have one really large window in my living room that leads to the backyard and usually in April, I'll have about 25 of them all over that one windowin the evenings. They're so pretty.

Here's another picture.....

Better feed it, it looks scrawny all smashed up against the glass like that ;)

http://www.edsflymeat.com/

mmmm....mmmmm.

As long as I keep the porch light on he seems to get plenty of munchies.

Another challenge! Patience, the time will come.

No fair buying plastic frogs...

But how are we to know if they're real or not?? That is the question....lol....I guess look for hot glue marks on the window??

LOL!!!

For shame....for shame!

I have to tell ya'll that I was cleaning out a bed today that is about 6 feet away from the bed where my stinkhorns are. They are all popping open at this time and the smell is utterly unbearable. I had to stop....just couldn't finish. It is, by-far, the foulest odor I have ever encountered and seems to be permeating the whole yard. According to the websites, there is nothing I can do. Thank God for the jasmine in bloom.

On another note, tonight I have a new visitor. It's a little salamander about 8" long. He's really cute. DD wants to keep him but I said no. (Can you believe?). He needs to go out and make more....I don't see too many of these guys so....let them multiply and then we'll talk.

Very very very nice!

Isn't he cool? Okay, I'm back out there and counted 5 tree frogs. Only one is on the window that I was talking about but he's on the screen. I guess it's a good thing because I don't get the glare from the flash and you can see him/her a lot better.

My gosh, this is running so slow you'd think I was on dial-up! Wouldn't enlarge the image, unless I waited and waited.....

Anyway, what I can see above in the thumbnail that finally appeared, he's a cutie! Wonder if your little sweater will fit him??

edited for typo that I thought I'd fixed since it took so long to post, but obviously it didn't..........

This message was edited Mar 12, 2007 8:39 PM

It's Kermit!

I love this time of year. It seem a little early for these babes to be out and about. Ya'll should hear the songs from my back porch. The bull frogs are croaking so loud.

Last year, doing yard work, I left the garage door open and my DH "squealed!" Yes, he squealed....he's not used to a lot of this. I went running out there and there was a huge bull frog sitting by the door. So I call my friend who is a WF rehabber for reptiles (and she has an excellent pond in her back yard) and she came running over. We were able to get the frog into a large bucket but, then he jumped. If you could have seen the spread on those legs. He was a huge guy! I'm talking 3'! The poor thing was scared with us all trying to catch him. He jumped behind and under the deep freezer. We had to pull it out from against the wall and tilt it a little so he didn't get smushed. Left it like that for hours until he came out on his own. I felt sorry that we had probably traumatized him. We just let him wander off on his merry way. Sure wish I had a picture.

On a separate note, there's a park not far from us. It's really a swamp but has a really cool three story deck to walk out over the water. Lot's of ducks, frogs, gators, water lilys, etc. I took a group of kids one night for a picnic and we stumbled on traps for the frogs off of the decks. Well, we opened em up and let them go. This big ole' burly...you know what....starts screaming at me for opening them up. I told the kids to get in the car and gave him the appropriate finger. Hope he ate at McDonald's that night.

terry - I'm having trouble with slow threads too. I thought it was my network but I checked that. Even threads with no pics. seem to be opening up slowly. It's been going on for a couple of days with me.

I will have to come up with a special pattern for these guys. It's not as simple as the stinkhorns. LOL.

Mine just started, how very weird! It's only here too......

You just need to have some opening for appendages. That's all..lol...

Knolan, that is a beautiful girlie girl stinkhorn outfit! It would fit perfectly! Mine won't be growing till June or July. I have two places that put up a single horn. I will measure it! I know better than to pluck one to get rid of it too. Phew! Your Kermit is very nice! Another month and our spring peepers will be going off. I love that. If we get enough rain, the lightning bugs will be thick. I found a glow worm a couple years ago. They're cool!

I miss lightning bugs. I grew up in Nebraska and they were all over the place. I've always felt the pesticides did them in...

We had a lot of them last year. I really enjoy seeing them.

Lightning bugs aren't as plentiful here as they used to be either. I also think it's because of pesticides. Those are also killing bees and other beneficial bugs.

You all are in too big of a city! Come enjoy some rural farm town air and enjoy the lightening bugs!

Absotutely!!! Would love to.....

I will too....one of these days. And it will be to compare my rural air wih yours. =)

Then it's a date! Just let me know when you'll be here........

Me too, Terry! And then you can come on down for a visit to 'The Swamp'. Bring your mud boots and skeeter spray.

Sure!! The more the merrier!! Can I borrow a pair of mud boots?? I sure don't have any....lol....

Absolutely!

We've had so much rain the last few days that you can't even walk in the yard without sinking. The pasture literally looks like a swamp. You should hear the bullfrogs. It must be mating season.