Metamorphosis Realized
We spent the last weekend of September—the weekend of my sister's and my dad's birthdays—camping with my extended family northeast of Green Bay. We had a lovely time despite less than lovely weather. With our kids and my niece and nephews all three or older now, crowd control is that much easier.
Getting ready to camp, of course, is not easy. There's a lot of gear to be hauled out of the basement and some serious pondering of what clothes to bring. I covered all the bases this time, packing everything from t-shirts to stocking caps, and was glad for it given that I slept in my beanie.
One thing made our preparations easier—the fact that our pets, Makayla and Makenzie, were low-maintenance. In fact, given that they were in coccoons, they were actually no-maintenance.
The operative word there is "were." When we returned, I peeked into their cereal bowl expecting two green lumps adhered to the wall and instead found two white butterflies. My little science experiment worked!
It was two days later when both kids were awake simultaneously and it was no longer raining that we had our grand release in the backyard. I took the Saran wrap off the top of the bowl, and one of the moths flew immediately into the corner by the back door where all the cobwebs are. I gasped when I saw it land there and not move (what a terrible, if realistic, way for this science experiment of ours to end!), but it was a false alarm. The little critter was just resting after its first flight of more than an inch.
The other one stayed in the bowl for a while, long enough to make me think it wasn't going to make it. But a couple of hours later, it was gone, too.
Getting ready to camp, of course, is not easy. There's a lot of gear to be hauled out of the basement and some serious pondering of what clothes to bring. I covered all the bases this time, packing everything from t-shirts to stocking caps, and was glad for it given that I slept in my beanie.
One thing made our preparations easier—the fact that our pets, Makayla and Makenzie, were low-maintenance. In fact, given that they were in coccoons, they were actually no-maintenance.
The operative word there is "were." When we returned, I peeked into their cereal bowl expecting two green lumps adhered to the wall and instead found two white butterflies. My little science experiment worked!
It was two days later when both kids were awake simultaneously and it was no longer raining that we had our grand release in the backyard. I took the Saran wrap off the top of the bowl, and one of the moths flew immediately into the corner by the back door where all the cobwebs are. I gasped when I saw it land there and not move (what a terrible, if realistic, way for this science experiment of ours to end!), but it was a false alarm. The little critter was just resting after its first flight of more than an inch.
The other one stayed in the bowl for a while, long enough to make me think it wasn't going to make it. But a couple of hours later, it was gone, too.
posted by Lisa Strandberg at 10:59 PM
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