In the wild female octopuses will lay their eggs in a sac and guard it for months without eating until the babies emerge and the mother dies - her demise is called senescence. This process is controlled by the optic gland using a cocktail of multiple hormones. For Terrance to still be alive after giving birth seems to be rather rare, IMO. Glad to see her alive and well.
When I lived in Louisiana I had a huge orb spider that would build a web on my back porch that would span about 12 feet across. She would make her web at night and a late night business meeting for the dog would make it possible to see what an enormous web she could make in a few short hours. Come morning the web and the spider would be gone only for the web to appear again in the same place the following night..
My family used to play candlepins when we lived in Massachusetts. When we migrated to Michigan bowling pins were so fat looking and strangely shaped. Candlepins takes more skill to play, IMO.
Every breath you take" is the ultimate stalker song. But I really like it. I have experienced a strange phenomenon concerning this song. When I used to work if I was running late for work or some appointment and the radio played Every Breath then I would get every green light, no debilitating roadwork and all the cars on my roads would travel peacefully. AND I would arrive on time or ahead of time. Strange but true. I keep a cd of The Police in my glove compartment all the times now.
The sheer strength and stamina to do SIX quad spins is amazing. I watched the clip and was hunched up hoping he wouldn't fall or trip. The whole video is great but the choppy camera work was distracting.
I remember Oral Roberts and his faith healing antics on tv. He claimed to heal people with the laying on of his hands. He made tons of money but he lost a lot of support when he claimed that God had told him he would 'call him home' if he didn't raise a certain amount of money for his fundraising events.
About 6 months before it happened I started giving away things to friends and relatives. People were amazed with their gifts. When they asked me why I was giving away such treasures all I could say was that it was "just stuff" and I knew they really liked what I gave them. In my head there was just this thought that my stuff was just stuff and it's okay to let go. Six months after I started my giveaway I had a horrible house fire. I lost all of my personal artworks which was very hard on me plus all the usual furniture, foods, collections from hobbies, etc. And I was okay with it. Somehow my brain knew it was good to let go and so I started all over fresh and new. I was also very good about coming up with ideas for inventions. My mother used to say I was always ten years ahead of things when it came to inventions that I never made because I didn't know how to do it.
1963 When my family moved to Michigan from Massachusetts we lived at my aunt's house while our new house was being built. There was a half tame squirrel in the neighborhood. One day I was hand feeding it. My mothers yells at me not to let it bite me. I think her voice frightened it because he nipped my finger which bled. Mother says don't tell anyone. I did, at supper and my dad freaks out and we all go to the emergency part of the nearest hospital. They determine I need a series of rabies shots but the doctor says they have 2 serums and if they give me the wrong one I'll be a vegetable because a girl the week before got a wrong shot and it happened to her. I saw a rabies shot, a huge amount of handcream thick penicillin in a giant sized needle and a tetanus shot on a tray and ran out of the building going anywhere/nowhere just to get away. They dragged me back screaming and I got the shots. A whole series of them - 1 a day for 3 weeks. Turns out that squirrels don't carry rabies because their metabolism won't support it. grrr
For Terrance to still be alive after giving birth seems to be rather rare, IMO. Glad to see her alive and well.
I was also very good about coming up with ideas for inventions. My mother used to say I was always ten years ahead of things when it came to inventions that I never made because I didn't know how to do it.