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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Is it a BIRD?! IS IT A BIRD?!

Last night Ashley and I went to see a sneak preview of Fracture and afterwards she came over for some (box!) wine. When we first got home, she stepped outside to call Phil while I (not surprisingly) got online to check a couple of things. Somehow, he got let in. I'm still not sure what he was, but I kept screaming, "is it a bird? IS IT?! A BIRD?! A MOTH?! WHAT is going on?" and Ashley replied, "OH GOD IT HAS LEGS," She tried shooing it outside while I helped by waiting in my bedroom with the door shut, yelling, "get it! is it gone? get it! is it gone?" like a confused savant who NEEDED THAT THING OUT. When he wouldn't shoo, I grabbed the broom and whacked him to death. Put him outside on the porch to take a picture where, I am not kidding, he somehow ended up back in the living room, on the carpet. I felt like I was all of a sudden in a horror movie. Here's the picture below but be aware, he looks so much bigger in real life.

7 Comments:

Blogger Amy said...

Hi Hope,

I actually know what that is. It's a luna moth. My old boss photographed one for me, framed it, and gave it to me as gift when I left the job. I have it hanging in one of our bathrooms. How random!

4/18/2007 12:40:00 PM  
Blogger Hope said...

LOL. If I hadn't been so scared I might've taken the time to realize it was pretty. Thanks for the info! (here I am wacking it to death while other people are enjoying it's beauty)

4/18/2007 02:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amy beat me to it - but I appreciate the distraction, as always. http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg296.html

4/18/2007 02:53:00 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Damn Hope!!!

TOOOO FUNNY!!!! SORRY...but I have to give you a hard time for this one...and I truly hope Bud did too! If he hasn't...he should have! lol!!!

Is this the same girl that was raised in the south...likes to go camping, hiking, owns a tracking business, is a friend to every stray animal around and has a boyfriend that is a good ole' Texas boy who hangs out in the woods for a living???

It's not like it's a rat, a poisonous snake, some kind of vicious creature or something...it's a BUG for the love or God...lmao!!!

Okay...I'm done now...except for laughing and shaking my head...

Hope everything is going well in your little corner of the world!

4/18/2007 03:37:00 PM  
Blogger Amy said...

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4/18/2007 03:47:00 PM  
Blogger Amy said...

John said to tell you that you shouldn't feel bad about killing it. Apparently, the moths only live for a week.

http://pbskids.org/backyardjungle/discovery/control.php?id=24628&action=detail

4/18/2007 03:50:00 PM  
Blogger alison said...

Hence the word lunacy.

4/23/2007 01:02:00 PM  

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