Dear Diary,
I am three years old! I can’t believe how big I’ve grown. It seems like it was just two years ago that I was just a little seed. Last year I was a seedling, but look at me now, I’m two inches tall!
Dear Diary,
Wow, it’s hot out, but that’s how I like it! It makes me feel so healthy! The more sun I get, the more red my leaves turn. Insects like that color and they want to come and see me. Insects also like my sweet nectar breath.
Dear Diary,
Even though I’ve tried the new “soil diet,” it just doesn’t seem to be working for me. Although other plants get enough nutrients from their soil, I don’t get enough. That’s why I’m hungry for something more, something that will give me the nutrition my soil is lacking.
Dear Diary,
Gee, I am hungry. What do I want to eat? Let’s see, what sounds good? I like spiders and any little insect. I can’t go and get these insects, they have to come to me. So, I think I will just sit here very still, with my leafy mouth wide-open and wait.
Dear Diary,
There are lots of Venus Flytraps all around me. I’m six years old and that’s old enough for me to make cool-looking flowers on my stem.
Dear Diary,
Bugs! Yum! I get so full, and it takes me so long to digest an insect, that I won’t be hungry again for at least two weeks or more.
Dear Diary,
It was a rock! Yep! I don’t know how it got in my mouth, but it took me twelve hours before I was able to spit it out. I spit out anything I don’t like! I even spit out the exoskeletons of the insects I eat.
Dear Diary,
Well, it’s winter now, time to go to sleep. Every year for the past, let’s see, how old am I? Oh yea, ten years now, I've gone to sleep from late November to mid February. Yawn! Happy dormant period to me! I’ll write next year!
Dear Diary,
Katydids, Katydids, how I love to munch on Katydids!
Dear Diary,
Wow! In all my twenty-three years, I’ve never seen such a thing. Who were all those people? They just stomped all over everything and dug up all my Venus flytrap friends. Now I am alone. Am I the last one left? I think I’ve become an endangered species!
