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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Hi folks,<br>
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I can't keep up with this weather. We've had plenty of March winds
and now they seem to have blown in some early April showers. I saw
people flying kites this past weekend, but it was so windy that they
kept crashing instead of flying. All you allergy sufferers better grab
your tissues, I've noticed there's starting to be plenty of pollen
sticking to things, like my car. Speaking of which, when I was driving
home yesterday, I noticed a movement on my windshield. You know, one
of those out of focus things that you're not really looking at but it's
right in front of your face so you can't help but notice it. I focused
in on the cause and realized it was a tiny baby praying mantis trekking
across the inside of my windshield! As small as it was, about 1/4" I
realized it must've just hatched out, which caused me to wonder how in
the world it had gotten into my car...unless it had hatched out in
there. My next thought concerned the fact that I don't think praying
mantises don't hatch out singly. There's an egg case with gazillions
of eggs left to hatch wherever the mother chooses to leave it, which in
this case must've been somewhere in my car. Then I started looking
around for more, which did not help my driving any at all, and noticed
3 or 4 more way up at the top of my windshield. I know praying
mantises are "good bugs" but I really wasn't all that thrilled to be
sharing my car ride home with a herd of them, all clinging upside down
to my windshield and looking at me with their little alien looking
faces. When I got home and actually had time to look, I found about
two dozen of the little critters all clinging to my car windows, mostly
on the passenger side, thank goodness! I tried to slide a piece of
paper under some of them and relocate them to a shrub in my yard, but
there are still plenty left that I couldn't reach, so if anyone needs
some of the little beasties to relocate to your garden to eat pests, I
can definitely hook you up. Please, anyone? I still feel like
they're crawling on me!<br>
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Our menu for today includes:<br>
Salisbury steak<br>
Mashed potatoes and gravy<br>
Montego blend vegetables<br>
Zucchini and tomatoes<br>
Macaroni and cheese<br>
Cheeseburgers<br>
French fries<br>
Hot rolls<br>
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And for dessert, have a piece of Chocolate Coconut Pie.</font><font
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Have a great day,<br>
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Rhoda <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
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