Like Magic
I never told you about the green beetle.
I was riding in the car with Josh and we were going to the library, the Green Hills Library, and it was hot and humid and all my hair was sticking to the back of my neck. And suddenly I feel and hear this giant buzzing noise of some sort of insect at the base of my hair behind my ear. It was soooo terrifying. I think Josh sorta heard it buzzing too and he pulled over the car for me so I could get out and look to see what it was. But I didn't find it. I was picturing a large bee. I've had bees in my hair before. We continued going, and suddenly Josh was freaking out because something large buzzed on him too. Which made me feel a lot better because now he knew that I wasn't just being girly, but there was something huge in our car. He pulls into a parking lot, and we get out and look for the thing...and Josh found an inch long shiny green beetle down by his seat. It was quite beautiful and made me feel even that much better. I am not really scared of beetles at all, so I didn't mind that he was on me, now that I knew he was off. Josh got him out of the car with the 5 ft long peice of bamboo we carry around in our car for emergancies. Bamboo emergancies. I just wonder how long he was in the car and how he got there!
The bamboo is longer than our car is wide. I discovered that when I was trying to use it to poke Josh while he was getting in the car.
Today we went hiking at the Cedars of Lebanon. It's a state park about 1 hr from us. I love it there because it always reminds me of going back to the old world or to the mideast during biblical times. In Lebanon (the real one, not the suburb of Nashville one, the real one is in between the Mediterrian and Syria (like that's going to help you know where it is...I know where you ALL (except the forigners) got your edumacation!)) Anyways, there are cedar trees in the country of Lebanon that grew real tall and straight and were traded back in the day when masts were used on boats (like greek days) and made that place RICH back then. But all those trees have been cut down, and they then turned to the white pines of Michigan (several hundred, perhaps thousand years later) as masts. Those are all cut down too now.
So I was in the Cedars of Lebanon State Park with Josh. It was pretty humid b/c it had just rained and it was evaporating while we were there. We used our campstove and cooked jalepeno cheese mettwursts (brats). Then we went on a pidily 0.5 mile hike. But I'm glad we did that and not the 5 mile hike b/c there were so many spiders webs attaching to me and it was soooo sticky and hot out. I found one web up in a tree, maybe 8 ft high, and it was large and thick. I looked through it and I saw sitting in it a 3 inch giant spider. UGgghhh... horrible. Josh wanted to poke it with a stick. I did not let him.
I have decided that despite my love of humid heat there are way to many larger bugs and plants to hide bugs down south. And ticks. I just can't relax in the woods like I used to. I am a northern woods person. There are spiders there...but there probably aren't 100 of them in one spot. (Which I experienced once here on a camping trip with Josh last November). And I never saw a 3 inch or even a 5 inch brightly colored spider in Michigan. The largest one I ever saw there was on my face when I was in third grade. I bet it was a 2 inch spider. But maybe not, my face was smaller back then. Though...there is a nice thing about down here. The fall and spring season is much longer and the winter season is not as cold. So if mix up schedules and avoid the woods in the summer and late spring, and go into it after the cold hits and all the bugs die and tick season is over and the plants have died too, it's alot of fun. There are a lot of great rocks sticking up here because the ground rock is right at the surface. I lied when I said great rocks...it's all limestone.
So. Enough of that. The other day I told the girl at the desk of my apartment complex that the large burner on our stove didn't work. And she said that she would send some one up that afternoon, but no one came. I thought it was a lost cause and was going to call up next week and complain again. Then when Josh and I got back from our hike today, not only was our large burner replaced, but the entire stove was replaced!! So now we have new stove. Just like that. It was like magic really.
I was riding in the car with Josh and we were going to the library, the Green Hills Library, and it was hot and humid and all my hair was sticking to the back of my neck. And suddenly I feel and hear this giant buzzing noise of some sort of insect at the base of my hair behind my ear. It was soooo terrifying. I think Josh sorta heard it buzzing too and he pulled over the car for me so I could get out and look to see what it was. But I didn't find it. I was picturing a large bee. I've had bees in my hair before. We continued going, and suddenly Josh was freaking out because something large buzzed on him too. Which made me feel a lot better because now he knew that I wasn't just being girly, but there was something huge in our car. He pulls into a parking lot, and we get out and look for the thing...and Josh found an inch long shiny green beetle down by his seat. It was quite beautiful and made me feel even that much better. I am not really scared of beetles at all, so I didn't mind that he was on me, now that I knew he was off. Josh got him out of the car with the 5 ft long peice of bamboo we carry around in our car for emergancies. Bamboo emergancies. I just wonder how long he was in the car and how he got there!
The bamboo is longer than our car is wide. I discovered that when I was trying to use it to poke Josh while he was getting in the car.
Today we went hiking at the Cedars of Lebanon. It's a state park about 1 hr from us. I love it there because it always reminds me of going back to the old world or to the mideast during biblical times. In Lebanon (the real one, not the suburb of Nashville one, the real one is in between the Mediterrian and Syria (like that's going to help you know where it is...I know where you ALL (except the forigners) got your edumacation!)) Anyways, there are cedar trees in the country of Lebanon that grew real tall and straight and were traded back in the day when masts were used on boats (like greek days) and made that place RICH back then. But all those trees have been cut down, and they then turned to the white pines of Michigan (several hundred, perhaps thousand years later) as masts. Those are all cut down too now.
So I was in the Cedars of Lebanon State Park with Josh. It was pretty humid b/c it had just rained and it was evaporating while we were there. We used our campstove and cooked jalepeno cheese mettwursts (brats). Then we went on a pidily 0.5 mile hike. But I'm glad we did that and not the 5 mile hike b/c there were so many spiders webs attaching to me and it was soooo sticky and hot out. I found one web up in a tree, maybe 8 ft high, and it was large and thick. I looked through it and I saw sitting in it a 3 inch giant spider. UGgghhh... horrible. Josh wanted to poke it with a stick. I did not let him.
I have decided that despite my love of humid heat there are way to many larger bugs and plants to hide bugs down south. And ticks. I just can't relax in the woods like I used to. I am a northern woods person. There are spiders there...but there probably aren't 100 of them in one spot. (Which I experienced once here on a camping trip with Josh last November). And I never saw a 3 inch or even a 5 inch brightly colored spider in Michigan. The largest one I ever saw there was on my face when I was in third grade. I bet it was a 2 inch spider. But maybe not, my face was smaller back then. Though...there is a nice thing about down here. The fall and spring season is much longer and the winter season is not as cold. So if mix up schedules and avoid the woods in the summer and late spring, and go into it after the cold hits and all the bugs die and tick season is over and the plants have died too, it's alot of fun. There are a lot of great rocks sticking up here because the ground rock is right at the surface. I lied when I said great rocks...it's all limestone.
So. Enough of that. The other day I told the girl at the desk of my apartment complex that the large burner on our stove didn't work. And she said that she would send some one up that afternoon, but no one came. I thought it was a lost cause and was going to call up next week and complain again. Then when Josh and I got back from our hike today, not only was our large burner replaced, but the entire stove was replaced!! So now we have new stove. Just like that. It was like magic really.