My visitors left for Nebraska yesterday morning. They left shortly after nine. Having a whole day ahead of me, I decided to do…. nothing. I played on the computer a little while, I watched TV, I took a nap.
The evidence of my visitors remains behind. They left gifts for me in my bedroom:
When it got dark outside, I saw the gentle flash of a lightning bug. Inside my house. Tara and Tim had caught some lightning bugs in a jar and the plastic wrap keeping them in was kind of loose. I may have more of these. I’ll catch and release them. Lightning bugs have a weird smell when you crush them.
Thank you for not showing us a crushed lightning bug.
Hooray for a day of nothing! It’s the very best kind of day, in my book. 🙂
When we went to Germany we were instructed to bring mitbringsels, little gifts for our hosts. Kathryn and I brought photos of us jumping off the Concordia sign. Did you take that picture?
My mitsbringel was a crocheted butterfly with a magnet attached to the back. Can we see the photo, please?
Have you crushed lightning bugs as an adult or was that a boyhood thing? Did you crush lots of bugs to compare their smells?
I remember when I was a kid, the boys in the neighborhood used to pull the ‘lightning’ part off the bug & smear it on the sidewalk. There would be all these streaks of yellow that glowed in the dark on our sidewalks. How do boys come up with this stuff?
NO! And how would those BOYS have felt if a group of large insects ripped off their derieres and smeared THEM all across the sidewalks!
(…what?…….human butts don’t glow?!………….oh……….never mind then…..)
I know! The boys told me that it didn’t kill the bugs, because of course I was mortified that they did this…..
And to this day I’ve never inquired about the truth of what they told me.