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I braved our garage sale through the weekend. Its amazing the kind of stuff that accumulates in a small house over the course of a year. Even more amazing; people are actually willing to take stuff from my home, and put it into their own homes where it’ll probably sit for a year or two before they get it together and put it in their garage sales.

Such is the cycle of life.

I bought a couple of seed starting thingies for the kids and some veggie seeds. Lexi’s doing color-ins of plant anatomy, and she’ll be charting the growth of a few select plants over the summer. Josey is going to try to establish a self sustaining enviroment in an enclosed terrarium.

Try as I might to convince the boy child that the plants cannot produce enough air or food for vertebrates in a sealed 10 gallon aquarium he seems to think that he can get a pet turtle out of this deal. The fauna bit of his bio-dome will have to consist of oxygen efficient invertebrates.

Of course, we’re also going rounds about which invertebrates to use. Apparently he wants to use insects that don’t gross him out. I truly understand his position on this one, however some of the grosser looking life forms on this planet are very beneficial and very appropriate for his project.

One thing we do agree on: the praying mantis does look like an alien ninja warrior and thus, is the coolest insect ever. The question being can the small environment support enough detrivores to feed a carnivore without help?