Author: Daisy

Today I took a break from writing about caterpillar care and worked on website visuals a bit. I’ve decided I want just one column for sections under each menu heading, obviously with some nice pictures.

To that end I took one of my pics of a male monarch butterfly and cropped out the background, then used it as a Raising Monarchs link on the Growing Flora and Fauna page.

 

This puts me on the right track for what I ultimately want the display layout to be. Also, another icon is my very own, rather than random clip art. Win-win!

Tomorrow back to caterpillars.

I’m still toiling away adding info to the Growing Butterflies section. This is going to take awhile…

Yes, robins. Check out the new link I put up over on the Birds love loose leaves page. It’s fascinating.

You can’t see it, but I did so much work for the butterfly section today! I located and uploaded over 20 extremely illustrative pics of caterpillars, newborns through chrysalides. I’ve created what is essentially an illustrated outline of the entire caterpillar raising process. Tomorrow I expect to be able to whip through huge amounts of text, guided by my pics!

So today someone from Boardman, Oregon visited my website 255 times. Yeah, right.

A simple search reveals that Boardman is the site of an Amazon data center. Bots are crawling my site! Eeewww. I’ve read up on a few of the possible reasons for this and I don’t like any of them.

I identified the suspect IP addresses and have blocked them. If you’re a techy person who can tell me any reason this was not a good plan, do drop me an email. If you’re reading this and not a bot, you almost certainly know my email or know someone who does.

Thank you!!

Added the pollinators page to the Natural Yard section of Growing Flora and Fauna.

Cleaned up a couple of pages today- put clearer delineations between suggestions on the Gifts worth Giving page and also rethought the organization on the Natural Yard page of Growing Flora and Fauna and made things clearer.

Also decided I really want to do most of my own icons, so taught myself to use Paint 3D, a cute little program that came preinstalled on my HP laptop. Look at me, I drew a bird! Yesterday I did a house by hand, which was much faster. But I am happy that I now have both options! Grow, Daisy, Grow!

As I am still working on closing windows on my phone that I’ve left open to remind me to post things here, I added a new section under Growing Up: Gifts Worth Giving. I also reorganized the Growing Up page a bit and renamed it Growing Up (Recs) so people understand it is a page for recommendations. I had taken the “Growing” theme too far and had become unclear. Hoping this clears things up, and that people find the gift suggestions useful.

So I didn’t work on Step 3 of Growing Butterflies today. It has become critical that I upgrade my phone to the latest iOS. How can I get by if my SkyView Lite is not working?!? But this means I must close open windows, so anything I left open to remember to put up here has to go up. Now.

So, you get squirrels. Naturally they are on the Growing Flora and Fauna page.

 

Note to self: Someday I should put up a section for The Adventures of Bad Bunny and Smudge the Squirrel. Maybe I could get my daughter to illustrate…

Today I finished about a third of the “Step 3 Feed the Caterpillars” section of the Growing Butterflies page. Thinking this may be too much info going on one page, but we shall see. Hoping to finish Step 3 tomorrow, but that may be overly optimistic.