KeyWee's Blog

It was with some trepidation that I entered the classroom on this date.  One of the scariest things about making a move further south than Z5 was the thought of big creeping, crawling, flying, biting, stinging things the size of a Volkswagen.  Since I am still alive to talk about it, obviously my fears were (mostly) unfounded. 

The class on entomology was interesting and would have been even more so if the instructor (by his own admission) hadn't been such a bug-obsessed maniac.  There is nothing about the world of insects that he didn't find of the utmost fascination.  I guess this is as it should be for an expert in any field and while not entirely infectious, I did come away with a totally different attitude about the little fiends.  Let's just say that 90% of them are our friends and completely beneficial, and now I have some idea which ones those are.  That's not to say that I want a houseful of pets with a skeleton on the outside of their body any time soon.

In other news ~ the hummingbirds are still here but their numbers are diminishing daily.  The six months they are away are long ones and I will miss them when they go.  In the meantime, I am keeping my feeders filled until no little sweetlebees remain.

I found a likeable plant on the "buy me, I'm dead" rack at Lowe's and the price was right at $2.00, only to find out that the mysterious caryopteris I bought is little more than a fancy blue spirea.  Who knew and why didn't they just say so??  Well at least it's a fall-bloomer and the flowers are attractive little blue puffs of smoke ~ I'm happy (unless someone tells me different).