Backyard Friends

Our little garden attracted a big friend:)

We were really scared to touch it but I did put the empty flower pot in front of it and it jumped in. It's skin was really warty. It was really gross to look at close up. But Mike and Scott loved him. He has already been back to visit one time, but he lives with his family the rest of the time.


We also found this:

The boys wanted to put it in their insect keeper and bring it in my house. Yuck!! I did have to put my foot down there.

And we find a lot of caterpillars. The first one we found we watched it spin a web thing. It was so interesting to watch. Sadly two days later it was gone. We think a bird must have eaten him. We caught two other caterpillars and kept them in a little insect keeper. They didn't eat anything and we put in every kind of leaf that we could think of. Eventually we left them outside in a rain storm and they died. Poor Fluffly and Devil Damsel. They had a hard life. Scott was so sad. But hopefully he will give up his fascination with the poor bugs outside. Our track record is terrible. Good thing we don't have any real pets.