Sunday Afternoon, August 30

Gifts for Ian

The cake

Oh, there are two names on this cake!

Their birthdays are two days apart.

Animal decorations for Aunt Debbie.

Lititz Family Cupboard staff make delicious cakes.

The boys wanted to show me Kevin – their spider.

From the Internet: The Black and Yellow Argiope is a common orb web spider. Orb web means it spins a web like a circle.

Black and Yellow Argiopes live in fields and gardens. They can be found on shrubs, tall plants, and flowers.

Black and Yellow Argiopes eat flying insects that get trapped in the sticky web. The most common ones are aphids, flies, grasshoppers, bees, and wasps.

These spiders prefer sunny places with little or no wind to build their webs. Each night, they eat their web and build a new one.

The web of this spider spirals out from the center and can be two feet across. The female builds the large web, and a male will build a smaller web on the outer part of her web. The male’s web is a thick zig-zag of white silk.

Boys, I think you are going to have to change Kevin’s name to Kevinette. 🙂