Happy Mother's Day
You'll be happy to know that I learned how to transfer home videos to iMovie. Still need to get up to speed on adding text. Before we get to today's flash from the past, "green" may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a grizzled old conservative. Just goes to show I never stop learning.Based on a tip from Ben some time back, this weekend I tried a organic approach to combat those nasty grubs that eat the roots of your lawn and garden...and grow up to be annoying Japanese beetles.
Milkey Spore aka Paenibacillus popilliae (formerly Bacillus popilliae) is a soil-dwelling, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium. Resident spores in the soil are swallowed by grubs during their normal pattern of feeding on roots. This ingestion of the spore by the host activates reproduction of the bacteria inside the grub. Within 7–21 days the grub will eventually die and as the grub decomposes, billions of new spores are released into the soil.Milky Spore in the soil is not harmful to beneficial insects, birds, bees, pets or man; and Milky Spore, like other bacteria, is highly survivable in cold and drought conditions.
Beneficial Nematodes are live microscopic organisms (non-segmented round worms) that occur naturally in soil throughout the world. They are parasitic to insect pests that typically have a developing (larval or pupal) stage of life in the soil; Upon finding a pest, they enter it through various body openings or directly through the body wall. Once inside, the nematode releases a toxic bacterium which kills the host larva within 24 - 48 hours. Both sound kind of creepy, but it's survival of the fittest out there. And it's environmentally friendly
Also on the green topic is his and her baths, something I discovered by accident. During our Master Bath makeover, Mom & I moved to the other upstairs bath. The makeover has been complete for awhile. Well, almost complete. Still have to do mirrors and sinks. Anyway, I usually get up a little earlier than Mom so I got used to listening to radio while getting ready without disturbing Mom. After a month or so, I realized the small stack of wash clothes and towels were lasting an amazingly long time. Do you realize how many often women have a need to wash this stuff? Reality is that if you do a decent job while showering, you should never need to wash a bath towel. Wash cloths may be a little different, but it;s not like I'm sucking the water out of them. But they do get a little stiff after awhile, so I do change these out when the mood strikes. But most of you don't use wash cloths anyway. I don't think I'll get many converts among the women in the crowd, but you men know what I'm talking about.
Headed to Raleigh NC all next week. That's where our engines are assembled and they are having a week long event to see if the processes can be streamlined. I'd prefer to stay home, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Good news is Debbie is already planning a big welcome back for next weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
About this week's video
Ben made a book of sea creatures and wanted to capture it on video. Ben is behind the camera and Chris is turning the pages & reading the book. LeAnn's wanders by. Appears she's been eating chocolate. You'll note that Ben is quite the perfectionist. "It's not a whale, it's a Blue whale". Pretty obvious that gene got passed on to Brynn. Chris gets the message and proceeds to include color in the remaining descriptions, but got the 2nd color wrong.
We transition to Chris behind the camera and Ben reviewing a dinosaur book from Aunt Charlene. Pretty animated performance. You may notice that I struggled with words greater the 2 syllables. Glad to know that its not something just kicking in as I get older.
You may also note the cool carpet. No, we didn't buy it. It came with the house. We lived with it for several years before replacing it. Had 3 growing kids to feed. They didn't seem to mind.
Enjoy your week.
Putting down the milkey spore this weekend ... grubs be damned
ReplyDeleteHad to clip the part about the bath towels and send it to Holli. We have over 700 bath towels in the house and we ran out this weekend. I use about one a week.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff!