“Pretty cool, huh?” My oldest son asked. He was holding a dead leaf out for me to see. On its tip, crawled the world’s tiniest yellow caterpillar.<\/p>\n
“Yeah.”<\/p>\n
I’ll admit it. I love the fact that my boys are fascinated as much by nature as I am.\u00a0People will probably mock them for it, just like they do with me, but I still love it.<\/p>\n
We watched it move along the leaf, humping up and stretching out like a tiny inch worm, then he shrugged, half-embarrassed. “Better get back to mowing.”<\/p>\n
“What are you going to do with it?”<\/p>\n
“Put it back.”<\/p>\n
“Okay,” I said. “Just don’t eat it.”<\/p>\n
He stopped. “Why would you say that?”<\/p>\n
“It was a joke.”<\/p>\n
“Well. . .” He looked at me, then at the caterpillar, then back at me. “Now, I\u00a0can’t stop thinking about it.”<\/p>\n
“I’m pretty sure it’s poisonous,” I said, suddenly nervous.<\/p>\n
He flashed me an evil grin and walked away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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