I sleepily walked down our duskily lit stairs this morning and clumsily grabbed my blue cereal bowl from the wooden drying rack and placed it on the counter…eh, what’s that? I see an old foe scurrying over the blue tiled counter along with his myriad of cohorts…the ants are back! They found the sweetness of…
Going Up?
*BEEP!*-*BEEP!*-*BEEP!* The alarm went off way too early this morning as I rose at 5am. Today was the big day, the vertical marathon! Running 61 flights of stairs as fast as you can, anyway you can! The Princess of Thailand puts on this event each year at the Banyon Tree hotel and people come all…
La Cuca Racha!
“Hey, there’s another cockroach!” I say to Sarah Jane as we watched our late night buddy scurry drunkenly across our brightly light kitchen floor. “I just threw its friend out about 4 minutes ago. This one looks like he’s on his way out too….” Knowing that cockroaches only come out to die, I wasn’t surprised…
Population Factors
In studying population growth I learned that there were 2 limiting factors to growth to keep in mind, density dependent and density independent factors. Density dependent are those factors that affect only a few individuals in a population. For instance, if you add more predators in a population, than the individual prey have more of…
Come Again?
“Next we have Poo singing a special song,” I announced with simple smirk and a Jr high giggle. I was MC’ing during the practice for our mother’s day program that would take place the following day and reading the bulletin that had just been thrust into my hands. This was a week of very random…