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@maratsadewrote: "We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field. "   Do they look anything like this?   HAHAHAHA!     Sadly...all of our nymphs died.  😞  I can't figure out why, either.   ... View more

Lol, when they are big enough to eat ladybirds, I'll have Gabe send me some of his stock😂😂😂 Gabe, I promise to post pics if they get large enough, lol. Every single one died within hours of hatching, except two. They are cool, though. We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field. ... View more

In the meantime, in the Sweetpea household, we just hatched a mantis ootheca and have a jar of fruit flies to feed the two surviving nymphs, lol. While Gabe hopes to eradicate his home of pests, we invite them in, lol! ... View more

😂😂😂 I never knew ladybugs could bite! We get tons of them in the house every year, but they don't bother me. Twice a year (fall and spring) they swarm. The flies, on the other hand, drive me nuts. Hasn't been as bad since the horses left next door. ... View more

Gabe and I live in the same region and I can tell you it most assuredly is NOT garment rendering season yet!  It's a late spring, for sure.  I usually hear peepers in our swamp by now and it's still quiet as can be when I step out at night.     Gabe, you don't like ladybugs?!  They're like, the most awesome, gentle bugs, ever!  LOL!  My daughter had a pet ladybug, "Scottlyn Rose" (the name we had picked out for our youngest, whom I was pregnant with at the time, had he been a she), when she was a toddler.  We raised a bunch in a ladybug habitat kit that we had bought for her...and that one particular ladybug we kept after the others were released.  Kept it for over a year!  Fed her soaked raisins, etc.     Now spiders...those I don't abide by.  My youngest wants a pet tarantula.  There's a CountryMax local to us that sells them.  I try to be a good boy mom...and let them have their creepy pets (the oldest had a corn snake).  But a tarantula?  That's a big ol' pile of NOPE!   ... View more

It's because we're all afraid of running out of data... (Kidding! Sort of) ... View more

Let the record show...I did NOT have more pie last night. ... ... ... ... I had the last piece for breakfast! ... View more

I am not sure about our village, they might. But the county itself has a 4AM to 9PM policy, lol. Unless there's an emergency. It's kind of ridiculous because the N/S county roads need to be plowed constantly due to wind. I just moved our vehicle so he could park his pickup and it doesn't look like our road has been touched, even though they've been up and down all day. ... View more

Made it, lol! Truth be told, I'm a little too full of beans and franks myself, lol! ... View more

Oh heck no! Partially frozen is best! Why aren't we neighbors?! The young'un has finally finished his work, and his beans and franks, and is headed to the shower. Joe should be home around 9:15 (our county stops plowing at 9pm, lol). I *think I can hold out and not eat more pie! In the meantime, the other kids and I are watching BBC Earth. Any of you seen this show? It's horrible! The kids and I are screaming, lol. "RUN BABY IGUANAS! RUN!!!" These nature shows are not for the faint of heart! ... View more

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The only thing stopping me is that my youngest son hasn't finished his school work yet (grrrrrr) and nobody gets pie until he's done, showered and had dinner. With some luck, my husband will be home from clearing the roads before the boy gets done, lol. He'll make sure I behave. ... View more

It's also Einstein's birthday. He (edited to clarify that I'm referring to Hawkin) went out in style. And now he knows all the answers that we can only contemplate. I'm trying so hard to not eat more pie, lol! ... View more

Well get on that, Gabe! I SO wanted a chocolate cream pie! It's one of my favs. But my sweetie wanted lemon meringue and I didn't dare buy both, lol! I have no willpower! ... View more

😂😂😂 Did you get any pie today, Gabe? I took a break from my health(ier) eating and had some lemon meringue for breakfast. OK ok, I had some for lunch, too. *shame spiral. But pie calories don't count on pi day! ... View more

YES!!!! Did you bake this? ... View more

Just one problem with that inequality. There's not any sprays on the market that can keep snow away! I just checked the 7 day forecast and, with the wind added in, I'm pretty much going to be a snow widow until Sunday. 😕 ... View more

Could be worse!  New England has been slammed so hard the past three weeks.  Not just with snow, but blizzard conditions.     Gabe, I thought you guys were getting missed by this one?  We're only slated to get 3-6"  I say, BRING ON THE SNOW!!!  But...snow does mean a delay in baseball outside practice so...BRING ON THE SPRING!   ... View more

Gabe, it's been awhile since I've cast with our dongle (we study science from mid-March through September and don't really have a need to cast for any other purpose), but I do believe you can cast outside of the Chrome browser. I think you have to start it in Chrome, but once the connection is made, you can close the browser window. I'd have to play with it again to see. I do know that I can cast from my Android phone with the dongle, and I don't think I have to use the Chrome app. ... View more

We have a Chromecast Dongle. We upgraded our TV last year (from our 13 yr old tube tv), and added the Dongle so that I could cast science lessons, interesting youtube clips, online labs, PowerPoint etc., from my laptop to the big TV. The application is a Chrome extension and I can cast anything. It captures whatever is on my screen and sends it to the Dongle, which is attached to the TV. Sound and all. It wasn't quite that simple to set up, but more or less. ... View more

Lol, now that we've waxed philosophical on Gabe's winter post... ... View more

I think it really depends on the person and your relationship. I have to be honest, I find myself pretty emotionally detached when it comes to stuff like this. But, I am adopted and was at a somewhat later age, so I am not as emotionally vested in my parents (sounds terrible, but it's true). Now if it were my husband or one of my kids, I'd be a hot mess. Expected or otherwise. When my SIL passed last fall, it was more or less expected bit difficult because she was only 52 (and has a surviving identical twin). My MIL passed a few weeks ago and it was different. Fewer tears. And it struck me how she was lying there deceased, and everybody was just carrying on with their lives around her, but almost like she was an afterthought. It wasn't in a bad way. It was just striking to me. You live, and then you die. And everyone else carries on. ... View more

Awww Gabe, I'm sorry to hear of your loss. 😞 Losing a parent/step parent is never easy, even if the relationship isn't that great. I get along much better with both sets of parents, now that we live several hours away. But they can still be aggravating. Especially when they come and stay with us. I guess that's kind of the nature of the beast though, lol. ... View more

That stinks. I was in college during 9/11 and well remember how it impacted our nation. But, having to stay with your parents is no big deal. You do what you have to. Personally, I'd rather live under a bridge, lol. But that's because I don't have a fantastic relationship with my folks (divorced and both remarried and I just got so tired of being stuck in the middle of their drama). ... View more

Gabe, what made you decide to come back north after moving south for so long?! ... View more

If that's not an incentive to quit smoking, I don't know what is, lol! I lived in RI in 92, 93, etc (and for that matter, I was only 12 yrs old). Our winters there never got that cold. 20s and 30s...MAYBE down to the teens. But I remember demanding from my husband in '15 that we move to the Azores, where he's originally from. Because the heck with that kind of extreme "polar vortex" cold. Why should we live in this when we can live in "paradise". Alas, he said we couldn't. The kids do the chickens and ducks now, lol. ... View more

We have some friends here on temporary Navy assignment (he is a Naval Recruiter). They are from GA and have only lived in the deep south. Their first winter here was that wicked mild one we had in 2016. We met them just after and they kept telling us "how cold" winter was. We hadn't even gone subzero that winter! But the year before, we spent WEEKS in subzero temps, and I well remember because I was the one schlepping out to break water for the chickens three times a day. Needless to say, they have not enjoyed their station here in NY and are looking forward to their return south later this year. ... View more