Class Room Time for Milkweed and Morach, Diane and the Scareho, Me~Hot, and The Pathway

Today's post is starting out

with a learning lesson, since our

local blogging teacher is on summer

vacation.

Yes Liz, I mean you!

By the way, Liz thank you

for bringing this subject to my

attention so I could blog about it.

Liz mentioned Monarch butterflies 

in her post the other day and 

that sparked something I heard

then read about, so today, 

CLASS 

we will learn a little about

 the Monarch

butterfly, then about the 

Milkweed plant.

What I heard then I read about 

was that a Monarch butterfly will

only lay her eggs on a milkweed

plant. 

Interesting, and as this plant

slowly disappears from our

earth, so will the butterflies.

Now, being the silly teacher I am,

I can't tell you what becomes of 

these eggs if there is no 

plant to lay them on, but

that is just not part of the lesson plan

today. 

"Ann, stop drawing and pay attention".

Moving on, there are 37 different types

of milkweed plant. When I was

younger I thought, cause WEED was

at the end of that name, it had 

to be an ugly plant.

It is not.

The pic above is normally what

we see here in TN.

Maybe we have orange for 

The Universary of TN.

However, personally, I 

love the purple.

Also known as the 

purple milkweed. 

Clever!

This one below is known

Poke milkweed.

And look here Liz,

a California 

milkweed!

"Terry, put the cat memes away."

I am not going to sit and 

copy each pic to post here today,

but if you are interested,

here is where you can see them.

37 Types of Milkweed (With Pictures and Identification)

I have to say, I think 

these are the most beautiful 

butterflies.

Esp. these blue ones. 

So, if you garden, go ahead 

and plant some milkweed.

I have two packs to plant this 

fall. Here in TN the Dept. of 

Transportation will send you out 

some free. If they do that again 

this yr. I am going to get as many

as I can and toss them out in 

the weeds across the street 

from me, maybe up and down

my road.

I have two growing right in 

the tree line on the side of the house.

They are stretching out trying to grab

the sun. I was going to move

them but they sit right in the 

patch of poison ivy and I 

just was not going to mess with 

that crap.

"Jeanie, did I not tell you that

you and your friends could not

have wine tasting events here?"

Plant lover's plant

some milkweed and keep 

the Morach's going.

"Now Jeanie, pour me a glass 

before you put that away"!

Class dismissed!

Just a reminder of what my

Whimsical Woman

looks like.

Now I will share her name with

you. This is Diane, named after

Diane Keaton cause she wears

hats, long sleeves and something

up around her neck.

At least my Whimsical Woman

is not sitting out looking

like she is offering 

herself. Found this 

on FB.

When I reposted it a friend

of mine said it looked

like a Scareho.

Oh, my goodness....

Anyway, I picked up flowers on

Thursday for my woman. Basket I think

is done, working on the hat 

now.

Me on Tuesday, 

it was

nicer then days before,

and not as hot but

not as hot, did not mean it 

was not hot, just means, I 

think you know what I mean!

Hope you are following all 

of that!!

I went out to weed eat.

If I have never shared this

with you before, let 

me share it now...

I HATE TO WEED EAT!

I HATE WEED EATERS!

I HATE THE STRING ON 
WEED EATERS!

I did manage to get the

front done and one side done.

I will work on 

the back and the other

side tomorrow.

Starting next week, when

weed eating is needed again,

my grandson, DJ has been 

hired to do it...

THE REST OF THE SUMMER!

He is 16, give him some 

spending money.

I hope that you had a 

happy 4th.

Braden, Amber and I 

went to the next city over

in the other county for 

fireworks. They elected to do 

them Thursday night leaving

families to celebrate on 

all day Friday.

 

Pics to follow, when I load

them to the computer and 

take a look see at what I have.

I cut the yard

on Thursday (yesterday), and 

worked on a project I somewhat

had planned out for months. I still

have work to do, but taking things slow,

makes things come together SLOW.

Here is a pic of what I got 

done on Thursday.

The red outer bricks have been laid

for months, but I was struggling with 

how I planned on doing it.

I wanted it to be a mismatch of 

stuff. I was even going to make

step stones actually, I did. I know better with the 

step stones, concrete is what you

need, not cement and I had the 

wrong thing. My stones fell apart.

HAHA....

No biggie not the first time I 

have screwed up a project and totally

sure it will not be the last.

Anyway, I really need to go out

and take pics of my problem

area, my fix so far, my fix to come 

and then maybe before long,

the finished fix. The walkway

started out as part of the fix.

I need more pebbles and 

the glue to hold them and

couple more cooler days,

today, is not it.

Pam