Well, I just got back from the nightly walk with my pup girl. As we were coming to the house I saw a faint glow in the dark on the road. I turned on my flash light and there it was. A critter that I have never seen before in my almost 51 years on this Earth.

I tried to get a picture of it with my phone, but it was too dark, and by time I figured out a setting it ran off into the grass. I looked for it but no avail.

I did a search on the intrwiz and sure enough I found it. I have like I said, never in my life seen anything like it before in my life and I have spent a lot of time out of doors in Kentucky.

I just thought it was funny that I have never seen anything like that before, and I'm fairly observant person, and as a kid loved catching and learning about all kinds of critters and bugs. Out of all that time and as an adult, I have never seen Glow Worms.

We have two kinds of lightning bugs/fire flys I have seen them my whole life, but Glow Worms? Nope, this is a first for me!

I guess that you do learn new things everyday!


ARman

You been listening to old "Mills Brothers" records?

Man, that thread title instantly brought back some childhood memories. I immediately thought of these things from the 80's:



And I absolutely recall seeing the real thing during my summers in New Jersey growing up. Hadn't thought about them in years.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Man, that thread title instantly brought back some childhood memories. I immediately thought of these things from the 80's:

LoL....well, it didn't look like that! It kinda looked like a rolly polly, but a bit longer and brown. Like I said, I ain't never seen anything like it before.

ARman

I grew up in the sticks. We had a very large pile of trees and trunks taken to reclaim a field. We harvested firewood from it for a decade. The neatest thing was the illumination from the bugs, worms, microorganisms, and such living off of the decaying woodland refuse. They would welcome us as we took wood, to heat our old, drafty, farmhouse.

Blues, greens, reds, the whole wood pile was lit aflame. Awe inspiring.

Second to this, was the full unobstructed view of the Milky Way Galaxy. It's amazing what a 50 mile distance from the nearest city can show you of the heavens.

You have reawakened that sense of wonder, and mystery, from my youth, with this thread.

Thank you for that.

H&K-Guy

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
You been listening to old "Mills Brothers" records?

I had to look them up. I have heard of the name, but didn't remember them. Nope, not my kind of music. Funny, I looked them up and the first song was glow Worms. I didn't listen to it, but I'm going to have to now, well, tomorrow that is.



ARman

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
I grew up in the sticks. We had a very large pile of trees and trunks taken to reclaim a field. We harvested firewood from it for a decade. The neatest thing was the illumination from the bugs, worms, microorganisms, and such living off of the decaying woodland refuse. They would welcome us as we took wood, to heat our old, drafty, farmhouse.

Blues, greens, reds, the whole wood pile was lit aflame. Awe inspiring.

Second to this, was the full unobstructed view of the Milky Way Galaxy. It's amazing what a 50 mile distance from the nearest city can show you of the heavens.

You have reawakened that sense of wonder, and mystery, from my youth, with this thread.

Thank you for that.

H&K-Guy

H&K-Guy, I'm glad that this thread brought back such good memories.

It kinda did the same thing as I was writing it. I remember as a kid day or night going through the large woods between our house and the farms around us. Catching all kinds of critters and bugs. I would look at them, find them in the encyclopedia of the many nature books that I had. I would keep them for a few days and then let them go. Drove my mom nuts! It's a wonder that I never got bit by anything dangerous.

Which I did get ahold of a couple of things that weren't so good.... LoL.

That reminds me of the time I dragged home a huge alligator snapping turtle, it was almost as big as a grabage can lid! Mom about had a heart attack with that one! LoL

You know, I had fond memories of trampsing through the woods and exploring the ponds and creeks. Watching nature, I think that I need to do more of that. Spent more time in the woods....who knows, might find another critter that I have never seen before!?!


ARman

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Man, that thread title instantly brought back some childhood memories. I immediately thought of these things from the 80's:



And I absolutely recall seeing the real thing during my summers in New Jersey growing up. Hadn't thought about them in years.

How well I remember that Christmas. My oldest daughter positively had to have one. We lived in rural New Mexico, Sears did not have them, it was call each and every toy store that I could find.. Finally found one at some store in Albuquerque, fortunately the car dealer I worked at about 85 miles from there had a Albuquerque phone line. The store would not ship it but I was able to pay for it with my CC and they would hold it.

So off to the big city I went that Saturday. Christmas morning my daughter was thrilled with it for about all of ten minutes.......

I had to look up the Mills Brothers, too, to see if it was the song my mom used to sing when I was a tot. It was.



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