Spiderphobia...

We found a web on the basketball hoop in the backyard the on Saturday and it was covered with baby spiders. Literally hundreds! So I sprayed some Blackflag spray on them and then the whole area for insurance purposes. We went out on Monday and this is what we found sitting on the top of the base of the hoop. Pretty nasty and creepy. I don't know what kind he was cause he blackened up in the sun over the weekend like a BBQ.

In this picture, the wind blew the spider just a bit right after I took the picture and I almost screamed outloud like a little girl.

Another Box Turtle trying to cross the road

This box turtle almost stepped out into the road in front of me. I had to turn around in the middle of traffic to go back and get him. Cambria and Maya called him Arley again. We have him wandering around in our backyard.

We found a 4 inch grasshopper yesterday. I knocked out the grasshopper and threw it in front of Arley. He devoured the whole thing. Cambria and Maya couldn't believe their eyes.

Anna and David's beetles

Anna and David went camping with Jay over the weekend (it was amazing how quiet it was around here) and this is what they caught. They were expecting to catch horny toads and lizards, but on their hikes they only saw a glimpse of one lizard and a mouse. They were bummed to only come home with two beetles.The home they made for them...see the piece of licorice?

Brandon's catches

This is Bryan writing.

This is our Lepard Geco we saved from the garbage last year.

Brandon found this baby geco on the porch the other night.

He is tiny! He saw this baby spiny while he was running in the evening.

3 minutes away

This is Bryan Posting. Brandon and I went out to the desert near our neighborhood. Of course you can always find a couch in the desert. It was a lizard hotel. We had to get a picture.

We tried to catch this baby wiptail.


This guy kept us running around the couch. Here he is peeking around the corner.

This roadrunner posed for us.

Night Hike

Sorry this is so late. We went on a night hike last weekend with Brandon, Jaxon, Jayden, Gage, Jordan and Me. Some of these pictures got posted on our family blog, but they are not at home until they arrive here...

Jordan shined his black light on him while I took this with the flash turned off. I think it turned out pretty good. This was not a small scorpin.

Nature's Transformers

The fuzzy caterpillar (above) that I brought down from the Rim made himself a cocoon. We forgot about it for a few weeks and this is what emerged: