We’ve seen our first octavius follicopedalis of the season. On the very same day that pain-in-the-pants mutt produced her first tick of the year.
From here the decision is very simple: tMiM will hold our mid-year staff meeting at Patrick’s house, not mine.
Where to go from here? Isn’t it obvious?
UPDATE: Make that three arthropods in two days. The dog (who’s immediately responsible for nearly breaking my leg, more later, if I can calm down long enough to post on the subject) found a crayfish, which looks exactly like the one on the Wikipedia Backgrounder:
