Today I took Claire to the post office to pick up a birthday package from Gramalie. The postman attempted to deliver it on Wednesday, but only left a note with “Failure to Deliver” reason: “Dogs.”

We then went to Starbucks where she got a banana muffin and then camera shopping. She is very excited to have her own camera. A Fuji Finepix electric blue like Madison’s.

Later we fed an earwig* to my Venus Flytrap. Within 2 minutes, the little critter crawled right into one of the traps and was quickly and neatly captured. How much fun is that? Claire wants to video the next feeding with her new camera. We’ll post it here.

* The name comes from the old wives’ tale that earwigs burrow into the brains of humans through the ear and therein lay their eggs.