Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 19, 2013

@scretwitchYesterday you asked about the storyline in which Max hits his head and talks fluently. It started on August 13, 2007. On August 17 he falls from the tree and is then taken to the ER. On August 29 he starts to talk fluently, shocking everyone, but unfortunately it doesn’t last long.

It’s a millipede-eat-millipede world out there…

if they’re eating each other, then they’re centipedes. Millipedes are herbivores. Centipedes are carnivores.

I am a little surprised at Alix’s reaction. I would have thought a girl so into nature would have seen, or was very aware of this sort thing before now.

Seeing them twisted together in the jar reminds me of the show about African wildlife we saw last night. Two (or at one point, three) male giraffes were standing next to each other and whamming each other in the neck with their heads, in kind of a leisurely fashion. “Bop! . . . Bop! . . . Bop!” Silliest fighting I’d ever seen.

My kids kept a Praying Mantis couple in a bug cage one summer in Japan, and we were shocked when we found the female and the legs of her mate when we woke up one morning.

Uh oh!