There are some things on this planet that are just plain….. weird.
You will be walking along, minding your own beeswax, and then it happens. You spy something that makes you say…. right out loud….
“Well dip me in molasses and roll me in corn meal! That is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen!”
Okay. Maybe YOU don’t say that…. but I sure like to say that, from time to time.
I get it naturally. I can remember when I was little. My Grandma K. took us to Scotland. We were out in a row boat on a big lake that was part of the Great Glen Mor. Something bumped the boat… a large fish or something, we thought. But then we spotted her. The Loch Ness Monster. Seriously.
And do you know what Grandma said? “Well dip me in molasses and roll me in corn meal! That is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen!”
Yes. It truly was….. just plain weird.
Today I was summoned to to view this little specimen. Heaven only knows what it is…all orange and purple and knobby in its prickly realm. Heck, I bet this thing doesn’t know if it coming or going. And exactly what is it for? Will it grow up to be something else? Evolve into a butterfly or moth? It may just get larger and larger…. and star in horror movies? Or maybe taller and bulkier and be a mascot for some future NFL Franchise?
I am betting on the film career. Stephen King’s next movie: The Knobby.
It is the little things like this… that really make me wonder. Not only about WHAT it is… but also what it is LIKE to BE this little thing. Scientists postulate that there isn’t much brain activity happening… but how do we REALLY know?
It could be an alien from another planet… with highly evolved brain activity that is imperceptible to human testing…. and perhaps it was sent here to observe us and report back to the mother planet. Which is where the Loch Ness Monster hails from. And Stephen King.
Yes. Just those little strange things in life that make you say, right out loud…. “Well you can just dip me in tomato paste, and roll me in cupcake sprinkles….”
….. I am sort of thinking…. that at this point…. it might be a really good idea for me to switch to decaf.
(Sidenote: This week in “National Love Your Bugs & Insects Week”… Hence the reason for all my recent bug photos…Seriously. Google it Janet.)
You are spending far too much time south of the Mason Dixon when you say things like: “Well dip me in molasses and roll me in corn meal!”
That is probably where that bug came from. Great swaths of Ohio forest will be eaten because you can’t stay in one place. I’ll tell you what that is; it is ground zero of an insect infestation.
Google it
A definite keeper. I’ll put the photo on my computer screen at work and wait for the multitudes to do a double take. Catedellic.
Too many grits will do that to you…. that is for sure!!!
Thanks Carol. It was Catedellic. It was very, very small too. I would say about a 1/4 of an inch long. Wee Catty.