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ceruleancorvidcatskill trip failures: was sort of hoping my chrysalides would come out while we were up here bc it seems like a nicer place to live, but they remain stubbornly opaque. adventure sync got turned off for a while so half my hiking didn’t count towards egg-hatching. did not make the pear-chocolate cake i really wanted to try because we lacked 1) baking powder and 2) good pears
catskill trip successes: read two more books of the raksura (please tell me there’s fanart for these!), plus the luminous dead which i recommend if you like the idea of Fraught Gay Sci-fi Caving Horror, plus borrowed and selectively bookmarked two cookbooks. walked a lot. saw many cool rivers, trees, butterflies etc. did a jigsaw puzzle with my family and also talked to them wayy more than when we’re at home and busy. cupcake went on her first off leash hike! also, we met a delightful cat at the catskill mountain country store. all their cats are named stuff like Ivan Terrible and Pebble Latte. this one, for some reason, is named Mexican Hat.
miss hat let me pick her up and purred. when she saw the dog she hissed, but then she came on the porch anyway and flopped down under my dad’s chair.
like all the employees came out to fawn over cupcake, which was wonderful.
also i found a couple geocaches, but then while going off by myself to look at the first twenty feet of a trail for the last one, i tripped over my skirt and stumbled directly into a deep muddy stream. RIP.
ETA: realized i maybe should clarify the chrysalides remark, since this is not in fact tumblr! basically my mom brought me three swallowtail caterpillars off a customer’s parsley plant and i’ve been raising them. their names are martin, jasper and beatrice, and at one point i could mostly tell them apart, but after eating a shit ton of parsley, pooping constantly, going into Escape Mode and then setting down to make their chrysalises, they now look identical. i brought them upstate with us in case they eclosed in this four-day period, but no such luck. all i can ask for is that it’s not WHILE we’re driving home!
catskill trip successes: read two more books of the raksura (please tell me there’s fanart for these!), plus the luminous dead which i recommend if you like the idea of Fraught Gay Sci-fi Caving Horror, plus borrowed and selectively bookmarked two cookbooks. walked a lot. saw many cool rivers, trees, butterflies etc. did a jigsaw puzzle with my family and also talked to them wayy more than when we’re at home and busy. cupcake went on her first off leash hike! also, we met a delightful cat at the catskill mountain country store. all their cats are named stuff like Ivan Terrible and Pebble Latte. this one, for some reason, is named Mexican Hat.
miss hat let me pick her up and purred. when she saw the dog she hissed, but then she came on the porch anyway and flopped down under my dad’s chair.
like all the employees came out to fawn over cupcake, which was wonderful.
also i found a couple geocaches, but then while going off by myself to look at the first twenty feet of a trail for the last one, i tripped over my skirt and stumbled directly into a deep muddy stream. RIP.
ETA: realized i maybe should clarify the chrysalides remark, since this is not in fact tumblr! basically my mom brought me three swallowtail caterpillars off a customer’s parsley plant and i’ve been raising them. their names are martin, jasper and beatrice, and at one point i could mostly tell them apart, but after eating a shit ton of parsley, pooping constantly, going into Escape Mode and then setting down to make their chrysalises, they now look identical. i brought them upstate with us in case they eclosed in this four-day period, but no such luck. all i can ask for is that it’s not WHILE we’re driving home!
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Date: 2019-07-08 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-12 10:43 pm (UTC)The caterpillars are adorable; I love their stripes. But frankly I’m very glad that when they become butterflies they stop having osmeteria and can’t make my hands smell like stinky cheese.
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Date: 2019-07-15 01:28 pm (UTC)You know, I had no idea about osmeteria until literally now? Amazing, but also I take your point about stinky cheese :P