The sky was overcast when I got up but it cleared by the middle of the morning. (Yesterday was warm and lovely, but I was inside almost all day.) For the first time, an Argiope spider made it to Halloween. I found some shreds of spinyback web but no spider. Lots of black swallowtail caterpillars ate rue, but I didn't see any on the milkweed or the parsley.
A downy woodpecker came for some suet. A blue jay flew into the oak. Lots of little things flitted around and I couldn't even tell if they were birds or bugs.
Because it was Halloween, I sat outside with the candy and the spider to make sure no one tried to kill her. It was very cold. I saw a couple of black ground beetles, a small moth, and several other spiders, mostly cobweb spiders and a long-body cellar spider behind the Argiope. I heard a strange hissing cough that I hope was a squirrel, and heard feet pattering on the roof.
The sky was overcast when I got up but it cleared by the middle of the morning. (Yesterday was warm and lovely, but I was inside almost all day.) For the first time, an Argiope spider made it to Halloween. I found some shreds of spinyback web but no spider. Lots of black swallowtail caterpillars ate rue, but I didn't see any on the milkweed or the parsley. 
A downy woodpecker came for some suet. A blue jay flew into the oak. Lots of little things flitted around and I couldn't even tell if they were birds or bugs.
Because it was Halloween, I sat outside with the candy and the spider to make sure no one tried to kill her. It was very cold. I saw a couple of black ground beetles, a small moth, and several other spiders, mostly cobweb spiders and a long-body cellar spider behind the Argiope. I heard a strange hissing cough that I hope was a squirrel, and heard feet pattering on the roof.
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