It's the first day of fall, y'all!
That means it's time to make this year's first batch of pumpkin cookies with my sous-chef, Anna.
Just as we were moving the first batch of pumpkin-spiced awesomeness to the cooling rack, I looked out the back door and spotted . . .
. . . the most humongous praying mantis I've ever seen in my life. Joy is pretty sure it was a girl, since female mantises are bigger than males, and we can't imagine a mantis bigger than this one.
We named her Holly Butterscotch. "Holly" is reference to the fairy police officer Holly Short in the Artemis Fowl series. And what about "Butterscotch," you ask? Well, after a few minutes of bugwatching, we were really excited to go back inside and eat some butterscotch chip-studded pumpkin cookies. See you later, Holly!
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