The Circle of Life

So, it's Todd's turn to do the Blogosphere today, yay. We had some fun experiences the last couple of days with nature. We had burritos for dinner on saturday, Lodema made some taco meat and we had refried beans and cheese and all that good stuff. We finished eating, but were talking to our neighbor Angela, so the meat was sitting for a little while on the stove. When Lodema went to put it away, she saw a fly on the top of the meat, and shooed it away. When she looked at where the fly was sitting, she saw some stuff that looked like rice, but really tiny. Yep, for those of you farmiliar with Fly Larvae and Eggs, you know, that the fly had just left us a present in our taco meat. Needless to say, the whole batch was thrown out. fortunately there was only a little left thanks to my enourmous appetite. Sunday we had a better encounter with nature. We came home from church, and i was about to open the door when Lodema freaked out. I looked around quickly and she said "oh, i thought it was a mouse", well, I couldn't see anything i thought that she meant the tire in our garage moved, but when i craned my neck over the lawn mower there was a little bird just sitting there! It couldn't really fly, but hopped around a bit, like a baby bird, fluttering it's wings and going a little ways, but not acheiving liftoff. We wondered if it was hurt, so we chased it around the carport for a bit, but the two funniest things it did, was #1-hoping onto lodema's foot (wearing just a sandal-like sunday shoe) which made her scream, causing the bird to say "whoa, i don't wanna land there after all", and when it half-flew down to the end of our carport and rammed straight into the gate. It's a solid wood gate that was not open at all. so, it was like watching a bird run into a wall. It was so funny, i kinda felt bad for laughing, but i figured heavenly father would understand. He has a good sense of humor right? anyway we asked my great-uncle across the street to come and look at it to see if it needed help, he came over and informed us that it was just a baby starling separated from it's parents. The parents would either come and find it or it would eventually feed a starving cat. So we nudged it out into the open and it hopped away. What a fun experience huh? such is the circle of life:) either be nurtured and taken care of by your parents, or be eaten by a carnivorous feline. what a great life lesson:)