#MonarchChallenge Success

 I posted a picture on Facebook a few weeks ago, maybe on Instagram or Twitter too. I'm not really sure.
   This picture right here.

It's Jeremiah, Brayden, Gabe, Zeke and Zara with Bella. They are standing behind milkweed plants. I got the milkweed through myBASF. It's part of their Living Acres #MonarchChallenge  I learned about it because one of the Grills kids, Hunter, was in a video. (He's not a kid, he's grown man, but his dad was one of the Grills boys so he has to be one of the kids. I guess. I don't know.)
   I went and signed up last year. and then this spring I got an email saying that my shipment was on its way. I didn't video planting the little plants. I didn't take pictures of them after I had planted them. They didn't really look too promising to tell the truth. There were 18 of them. I planted 6 in each of 3 locations. Watered them. Then I watered them again about a week later. Then I watered them some more.The ones here in the back yard have done the best. There were actually 3 blooms. 
   But I never saw any butterflies around them. I was walking around the yard yesterday and I noticed there were caterpillars. CATERPILLARS were EATING on my MILKWEED

MMyILKWEED!!!! 

   How dare they? 
   I planted those for the Butterflies. The Monarch butterflies.
   Actually. That's what I hoped to happen. It's what was supposed to happen.
   That was the goal of the program.
   Monarch butterflies come from caterpillars. And MONARCH butterflies only lay their eggs that develop into caterpillars on milkweed. If you don't see them in that picture. I zoomed in for a closer look.

There are 4 of them in all. The 2 up top. And these 2. Happily munching away on my milkweed! #Monarch Challenge Success!

 #ForTheFuture


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It was Kinda Chilly

   This morning it was 32°. That's freezing. 
I was kind of worried about how it we going to affect my flowers. But I went out later today and took these pictures:

  

  
   They seem to have held up fine. The crocus are done. The hyacinths are finishing off. The tulips and daffodils are beautifully blooming.

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Confusion

   Tidbits:

1. Yesterday I took Zara to Camp Clark WIlliamson for a planning meeting about church camp. While I was there I went up where the Cool Springs cabin is. They've cut down the tree that was right beside the cabin. It's been cut down for a while. They've even cut it into sections. That 🌳 is dead.

Evidently, someone forgot to tell the tree it was dead. Because that bud is on the 3rd section of the tree. That tree is intending to grow this year.

2. On my way home, I went to see Buster Brown. I figured he might be bored since Mr. Mac has been having some medical issues. But Buster Brown seemed to be in good spirits. And Mr. Mac seemed to be doing as well as could be hoped for. We talked about buttercups (daffodils). Scrambled Eggs and Butter and Eggs

 This is Butter and Eggs. He had a Scrambled Egg in a vase on his table. They have white petals with an orange inside and look like scrambled eggs. 



Tidbits. Nothing deep. Nothing profound. Just stuff I thought about posting. There's no connection between these things. 

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Let's Be Honest

   I wrote about doing this a while back. Planting some bulbs here. I like flowers. Always have, always will. Some people could become crazy cat people. I could become crazy flower person. Not in the house though. in the yard. I even have ribbons from back when I was a child and entered flowers in the Gibson County Fair.
   I planted them with the goal of seeing beautiful flowers blooming this spring. But honestly, I didn't know. I had dropped 60 pounds during the radiation and the chemotherapy, I was weak as a kitten. It took me several hours over 3 days to get the bulbs in the ground. I'd plant a few bulbs. Sit down.  Take a little rest.  I was sure I would be here. But I was waiting on the trip to the Doctor and the scan to say it for sure. The people on the Titanic were sure they were going to make it across the ocean. See how well that worked out for them.
   I've been watching the leaves of the flowers sticking up out of the ground for a while now.
   Then today, when I went to the mailbox to get the mail. I saw IT! I had a blossom from the bulbs I had planted. After I walked over and looked at it I turned to walk back towards the driveway and saw that on the other side, I had more!

    I'm going to have more blooms. The Crocus are beginning to arrive. This is their first year, so they're probably actually a little late.

Next year maybe they'll get their heads out of the ground and get their buds opened up before the flowers over at the old house get around to blooming. I'm not going to say it in front of the crocus but those daffodils were blooming a week ago.

  BTW, I think the groundhog may have been right. I would have to look but I think it was Feb 15th when they bloomed last year. This year February 5th. 
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