and I ESPECIALLY didn't like the 12-18 inch centipedes that bite. All of which get in your house.
Whoa, Nelly! We have 12 inch centipedes here that can get into the house somehow--my Ex found one in the middle of the kitchen floor, it had been effected by spraying for the indoor buggies, so he took it outside where it tried to figure out how to walk again. He let it try and live outside again--later on the biologist friend of a friend said it was rare, and wished she could have seen it.
Another one surfaced later, and he kept it alive with snacks until she could drive up from Houston the following weekend and pick it up. It was beautiful colors--white shading to pale rose and then red or purple, I can't remember which.
I was extremely grateful I didn't find it--I might have been very freaked by its size. I kept thinking Where was this hiding the the #$%@! kitchen? Where could it squeeze in?
the hibiscus. I also really miss the big melting pot the culture is. The food is incredible.
Here we get hibiscus, but they do better in pots--they get big and can live outside in Houston. Austin is a big cultural mix, with the university and the capitol here. And food can be good and varied--it's not Toronto or New York, but it's got more variety than the Midwest, where I came from!
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Whoa, Nelly! We have 12 inch centipedes here that can get into the house somehow--my Ex found one in the middle of the kitchen floor, it had been effected by spraying for the indoor buggies, so he took it outside where it tried to figure out how to walk again. He let it try and live outside again--later on the biologist friend of a friend said it was rare, and wished she could have seen it.
Another one surfaced later, and he kept it alive with snacks until she could drive up from Houston the following weekend and pick it up. It was beautiful colors--white shading to pale rose and then red or purple, I can't remember which.
I was extremely grateful I didn't find it--I might have been very freaked by its size. I kept thinking Where was this hiding the the #$%@! kitchen? Where could it squeeze in?
Here we get hibiscus, but they do better in pots--they get big and can live outside in Houston. Austin is a big cultural mix, with the university and the capitol here. And food can be good and varied--it's not Toronto or New York, but it's got more variety than the Midwest, where I came from!