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We have had a bit of buzz around our tomatoes lately. First we noticed some damage to a small section of our tomato plants.
Then I found the culprit and went straight to Google. Aaaah, Google. We learned we had a tobacco hornworm. I found the little guy not too long after his first instar; While I didn’t get a snapshot of it he was near the old cuticle and very small. He was green, about 1″ long, and about as big around in diameter as an ink refill for a ball point pen.
We were intrigued by him and what he is to become, so we decided to “sacrifice” one of our smaller tomato plants we had been nursing (it wasn’t growing well where it was) and remove it from the garden to put it in a patio pot and allow the caterpillar to have it for its home. Overnight it grew a bit more than double. My children were so surprised it grew that fast until the 5 year old and the 13 year old said in unison, “Well, it is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
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Tomatoes as of last week (I think). The Cherry 100s are in front there, the Red Beefsteak are to the right and behind on the left as well.
Can anyone say “fried green tomatoes?”
Watermelon!
The blackberries are going crazy; we’ve already had to prune them a bit. We are having a bit of trouble with our squash as we don’t seem to have enough bees or wasps or other pollinators. So we will see what happens. The okra took off over the weekend, but I have not captured them on film yet. The peppers are finally taking off for us as well. We thought we had lost the peppers to some pests, but they have fought back and are now doing really well. The carrots, notsomuch. :(
Remember my Good Bad post? More along those lines tomorrow.
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Are any of you who are registered having trouble commenting on the site? I am trying to find the bug that is causing a few members/readers not be able to publish a comment when they are logged in. Would my wonderful readers please do me the kind favor of commenting on this post after you have logged in. I made one settings change that may help. If you were previously having trouble would you be so kind as to try again.
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What is a community? Here’s how Webster’s defines that word:
- a unified body of individuals: as
- a. state, commonwealth
- b. the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly: the area itself
- c. an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location
- d. a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society a community of retired persons
- e. a group linked by a common policy
- f. a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests the international community
- g. a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society the academic community
- society at large
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- a. joint ownership or participation community of goods
- b. common character : likeness community of interests
- c. social activity : fellowship
- d. a social state or condition
We all have multiple communities
Most of us have a neighborhood community where we interact with our neighbors and their family whether that’s an apartment complex or an acre between with house at these larger distances; it is the community in which we live and what we make of it.
Many of us have the community of our churches where we support and encourage and pray for one another; a family among believers, the families we worship with weekly and the family of saints so large we will never meet them all until we commune in heaven for all eternity.
Students have a community among their schoolmates or our homeschooled children among their other homeschooled peers and co-op classmates.
Those in the workforce have a community on which they build their professional relationships, even if those never really cross paths with the everyday normal aspects of family/living communities.
You get the point, right? Enter the Interwebs and a whole other, new, genre appears for more community. This community makes the world feel so much smaller, don’t you agree? It has opened up the world to so many of us on a new level. A community of moms with similar issues, moms who use cloth diapers, moms who work, designers sharing ideas, homeschoolers sharing ideas and information, et cetera.
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I am always amazed at how people, at least those who speak up, tend to assume the worst and jump on it. It is a concept I do not get. I have had numerous emails about the post I published on Sunday. Oh, my mercy! As a bit of a disclaimer I should say that not every single email I got was of a negative nature. I realize that maybe I should have waited one more day to hit publish as I had some fever and I could have edited and worded a few things better or clearer than I did.
I didn’t want to write about each and every thing I’ve been thinking through in that post. I was vague. I was cryptic although not trying to be. People who know me need to chill out a bit and give me some credit. Think about what I have given up in my life for those I love (i.e. my husband and my children); think about how much I have sacrificed and said no to because I love my husband and my children. I am not trying to be high and mighty or put myself on a pedestal; I would just like a little credit for having a brain. Apparently people think I am going to run off on here and start bad mouthing people. That really makes me sad. It makes me sad to think that those around me or who grew up knowing me would think that I would do that.
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Saturday we did a bit of work around the yard and garden and I did some more refinishing of the chairs I haven’t posted about yet. HA!
I decided a quick trim for all the boys was a bit overdue, so I sat them down outside and went to town with the clippers. All was easy and fast as usual, but CowBoy decided to zig when I zagged and in a week I’ll be able to fix that little spot over his left ear. He is five and I don’t get why he chose now to do this; I have been cutting his hair as long as his hair has needed cutting and he has always been so good. It’s not bad and I could just cut it a tiny bit shorter all over, but he doesn’t like it real short.
DOINK!
On with the show. Bairno was sitting in my lap as I checked my email and he wanted to play with the iSight camera on my laptop. I love this PhotoBooth app. It is a lot of fun to watch him with it.
He wanted to make faces. And we did!
I love the narcissism of two year old children
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