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April 08, 2008
Round 2 is here...bring it on...
I have been in Austin ALL DAY and I hate it when an entire day is blown outta the water...geez...
On my way to the car, I stopped and looked at the wee monarch caterpillars we spotted over the weekend...they aren't wee anymore! they are all rather large...I stopped counting at 37...yes, that's right..37 caterpillars are eating all the milkweed they can find...(that's just the ones I spotted, who knows how many there really are)...I stopped and bought 3 large milkweeds at the nursery, but I think I'm gonna contact a local elementary to see if they'd be interested in taking some off my hands...I might just take some with me into Austin to the butterfly garden and release them there as well...we just don't have enough plant material to handle over 37 caterpillars right now...they eat nonstop, all day...
I don't anticipate the same crush of orders as I had in Round 1, but then I don't know what to expect...I'm ready to take your order, bring it on!!!!
I'm still listening to 1776 on CD and its so great...its the kind of thing that we shoulda been taught in school about the revolutionary war, but we aren't...we have to seek this on our own..thank goodness people write books about what really happened so we know the rest of the story...like Ken Burns and his movies about the Civil War on PBS...fascinating stuff to learn how this country was built, what people went thru, how hard decisions were and just how amazingly LUCKY we were with so much of it...the weather worked in our favor just when we needed it, Washington was an awesomely smart general, as well as flawed, we didn't run over the British, they kicked our butts a few times, we kicked them a few times, and mostly you must stay clean and washed or dysentery will kill more soldiers than any fighting will...
I am not a historian, I enjoy history, but haven't done a lot of independent study on the subject...I enjoy learning about the 17th Century because I am interested in the needlework of that time, and therefore the way of life of the girls/women who were doing the needlework and what their status in life was...that segues into the 18th Century America and what it was like living in the new world, how difficult it was to get supplies to stitch, where the supplies came from (linen from Ireland, silk from China)how the supply channels worked, the cost for the goods, and as you can see I get wrapped up in it all...so this is good stuff...I need to listen to more historical information, as long as David McCullough reads them all...he's got the best voice out there...
I have pics of the garden, but I have to unload them on the PC because i don't have the memory stick reader for the Mac yet...so much to do...so I'll get them downloaded and posted soon...I will...maybe i'll take some new shots, I took them in the sunny part of the day and they are a bit bright...
Posted by Donner at April 8, 2008 05:00 PM