We've had a weird caterpillar emerge - the bamboo moth caterpillar. MAF tells us it is not trying to eradicate this insect. We must have thousands eating our bamboo. Wouldn't it be nice if it ate the whole thing, then died? I doubt it works that way though.
On a more positive note (indeed, positively exhilarating), we spotted a Blue Moon Butterfly!
We've been looking for these for years. They live in Australia but occasionally get blown across the Tasman - it's only the size of Europe after all.
Isn't it beautiful?
This year our garden has produced about 300 apples from the three trees. We went and stripped two of the three trees of their last apples. These are the ones that made it into the house. I think we'll juice some of them. This photo also documents our first feijoas. For those of you who have followed the saga of our barren feijoa trees, rejoice not. These fruit come from our new trees which we planted on the north side. The southern feijoa trees, which are now nearly eleven, are still barren.
We've also had an explosion of creativity in the house lately. The boy-child (he of the blond hair) likes to draw war scenes:
While the girl-child draws butterflies:
Given their parentage, we're just delighted the children can draw AT ALL.
Speaking of being pleased that my children could do something, I was quite chuffed when I heard my children saying something in unison, to realise that the reason that they were speaking in unison is that they were reading something together! Pozz doesn't often read anything voluntarily - not even street signs. But the sweet thing is that they can help each other a lot, because they're at about the same level.
And of course something that Pozz is absolutely wonderful at? Fishing. How does he get the patience? For the last 3 Sundays, he's gone out in the dinghy and caught dinner. And Monday's breakfast. He is truly in his element out there.
(I do still have a Firstborn son - he's just not here very much!)
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