Found an odd caterpillar in our pool. Yes. Floating along on a ball. How it got into the screened enclosure or got on the ball is a mystery. Terry rescued it and set it free. I looked it up and it is an Echo Moth caterpillar. It likes coonties which I used to have until the guy that was helping me last year in the yard dug them all up. Thought they were weeds. Back to doing my own gardening again.
In the following picture, the girl doing the split in the middle of the street is my granddaughter Addison. My Tampa daughter-in-law and her daughters were in LA for a convention. They went to Hollywood and Addison recognized a famous dance photographer and asked for a selfie. She got her selfie and more! I started following him on Instagram and he seems to specialize in taking photos when traffic is stopped at a red light. Jordan Matter.
Now that the rain has stopped for a day or two I’ll be out and about snapping more pics!
My yard is definitely loving the rain. All the flowers are “lush”. As are the weeds because it hasn’t stopped raining long enough to pull them.
Piper and I went to see the latest Godzilla movie right after it was released. And you ask how was it? It was Godzilla. It was big. Lots of campy looking monsters. Or Titans as they are now called. Only disappointment was that there were no Mothra ladies singing to raise her from her slumbers. I have been a Godzilla fan since my youth and my poor children sat through many an afternoon watching old black and white movies with me. “Mothra……” Had to introduce my granddaughter to the tradition. In 3D, no less. Go Go Godzilla.
I’ve been “organizing” the Old Homosassa Learning Center for a couple of years now. I don’t run it. Or teach. (I do volunteer) I organize. I reach out to the community and say…..What do you want? We now have yoga, body sculpting, and Zumba. Two sessions a week for each class. 5 bucks a class which goes to the instructor. Ukulele and sewing programs–both free. Also have a great after-school enrichment program for kids from the area and a very robust summer camp. Everything for the kids is no charge.
The learning center was formerly a fire station. We have painted the floors numerous times. Where the fire engines sat, the paint does not stick. And the floors always looked dirty.
After all of these successful programs, I finally convinced the board and the members of the civic club that it was time to invest some money into the building.
NEW FLOORS!
One final note, The Save the Homosassa River Alliance had a meeting last night at the learning center. Two members of DEP spoke.
I’m guessing these guys are used to getting stupid irrelevant questions at their speaking engagements. And they answered pretty well. Considering that DEP and the local water district and FWC and every other state or county organization duties overlap and it’s a bit difficult to figure out which agency to go to.
But I found it quite amazing, that after two years of a powerful campaign by the Homosassa River Alliance to stop people from dumping their scallop shells in the “Blue Water” of the Homosassa River, these guys were clueless about the effort. The first time they had seen one of the brochures. Had no idea that there were mounds of scallop shells covering the bottom of that area and stopping the grasses from growing because sunshine can not get beyond the shells.
I took a bit of a vacation. Kind of got overwhelmed with too much busyness.
I’ve been trying to get my life in order, categorized and organized and prioritized.
I quit writing for the NatureCoaster.com. It didn’t take all that much time to write there a few times a month but I had to start eliminating somewhere. I took a month off from my DIY blog, too.
Went to Phoenix for four days to visit family.
Went to North Dakota for the oldest grandson’s graduation. Stayed there for two weeks.
North Dakota Family
This pic is a wee bit blurry. Teach to me to hand my camera to a total stranger! Should have given him my iPhone. Everyone knows how to use a smart phone for capturing life’s important moments!
Anyhow….. I’m home for awhile. Recuperating from the travels. Need to catch up in my yard. Lots of weeds growing along with all the pretties.
Speaking of….
I add butterfly host plants in with the flowers. Mostly parsley because it’s easy to grow from seed and was delighted to find some swallowtail caterpillars on these….
Dill is another host plant and I usually do not have much luck with it but this year I had about three plants that popped up. And those were also being devoured by caterpillars…
I have a lot of parsley and as I was wondering how the dill could possibly feed all these hungry caterpillars a red wasp swooped down and ate one. Later that afternoon I checked and there was only one left.
There goes my lovely bunch of swallowtails. Circle of life.
