Visitors leave, a new visitor comes

We just finished a great Labor Day weekend with the Payne Family Reunion. There were roughly 175 in attendance with 17 staying in our 4 bedroom ONE bathroom house . Maria, Kent and their four kids were the last to leave this morning and now our home is quite again. What a bummer- I hate the end of family visits. Jay, Ilene and Andrew were the only ones not able to make it. I didn't take any photos (may I should have) and instead just enjoyed the visit. I'm sure Joy will add detail to "enjoyed."

Just when we were super lonely, this little guy crawled into the garage. Luke and Allie had a good time playing with him... If you click on the picture and look at the full size image, check out his (or her as Allie would prefer) wing - amazing "bio-mimicry" of a leaf.
This is the only photo I took during our reunion (Joy's famous corn meal pancakes). Krista and Dad, please share your pics...Allie always uses these gloves when she wants to play with bugs. She came in a few weeks ago from the garden and had found a massive cigar-like tomato worm that had eaten most of the leaves off of our bell pepper plant. I conned her into putting on these gloves and pulling the worm off the plant. When I told her he needs to go live down in the street, she became concerned that he might get run over (hmm...). She wound up naming her Priscilla if I remember right and put her in a shoe box with some carrot tops.
Like all of our "bichos" (bugs), Allie wants to name them and keep them. He's living on our apricot tree for now...