This was in my basement the other day. How did it end up on some leaves, you ask? Well, when spotted, it was conveniently on a box bottom, so I covered it (just barely) with an empty cat food can, and brought it outside, where I released it into the wild, with firm instructions to never darken my doorstep again. It’s frickin’ HUGE! Luckily, it didn’t move when I was covering it or photographing it, otherwise anyone reading this would have heard the scream. Wherever you are. I didn’t have the presence of mind to put a quarter next to it for scale. I wouldn’t have wanted to get that close. I *hate* bugs, especially fast ones. They creep me out and I can’t help but think about where they might have been. Like on my face.
These are some pictures of my cousin, Shabtai, his wife, Michal, and their two beautiful sons, Dan and Eitan. They’re here visiting from Israel. Eitan is in Michal’s arms. We were at my cousin Marian’s house in Greenwich celebrating her daughter Chelsea’s graduation from high school. She’s going to St. Andrews next year. La di da! We ate burgers and dogs and lovely potato salad and played with the boys and Léa, who popped by a little later with Sam and Priscille. We had Dan saying “Yummy,” when he was eating cake (We were all saying it, he was aping us. He speaks no English. It was funny.) and “Go away,” to the Willsabeest when Wills was begging for food.
More pictures of the family, including Wills:
