Bugs and More Bugs

Summer is for the bugs and we have plenty around here.

I'm sick. Reuben is sick. Miriam is sick. So Aaron will probably soon be sick. The cold medicine is messing with my head so I'm not going to write too much. My brain is crazy right now.

So enjoy the pictures.

Reuben loves the microscope at the study room. Behold, my future entomologists :)

It's so humid the lens of my camera keeps fogging up. We went on a family nature walk. Reuben found this butterfly.

Miri got a kazoo at her Grammy and Papa's house a couple days ago. She's been kazooing every day since. Her dedication to a daily practice routine is a little nerve racking. Will I, as a parent, be capable of enduring the horrible noise of real musical instrument training? I have my doubts.

The nature center near us has a dug out. I'm not really sure if they technically allow people to climb in it, but nobody stopped us. The kids were thrilled.

I'm reading The Lost City of Z which is about the British explorer, Percy Fawcett, who mapped the Amazon, claimed to have discovered an ancient pyramidal city in the middle of the jungle, then disappeared. (He's the inspiration for the crazy dog guy in UP.) Several search parties have tried to discover his fate only to go missing themselves. The Amazon is a deadly place.

Selecting a book to read about people dying of fevers while I have a raging fever might not be my brightest moment, but it is fascinating. As a bonus it makes the insect life around MD seem wimpy. No blowflies depositing eggs under our skin. No eye licker gnats. No flesh eating bees. No malarial mosquitos. Life is good.