We have taken in new residents at our
lakeside cabin in the mountains. They live in the condos we set up in the garage.We now have a colony of earth worms and thousands of meal worms. I have 1,000 red wigglers and started with 3,000 mealies. Before you call the men in white coats check out this website to read about people seeking state or federal grants to take worms to school.
The mealie population gets reduced by a couple of dozen every two or three days when Sylvia puts them out to attract blue birds. The garage stays fairly warm so they should be okay there. The earthworms eat table scraps, paper and coffee grounds. The meal worms eat, well, meal. Chick meal, that is. The bird store charges $7.50 for about 20 of the meal worms, and I got 3,000 for $12 bucks or so. They are both good for fishing, and the earthworms make compost for the garden and bait for the fish.
We had a few days of really cold weather that killed off most of the apple crop around here and the peach crop across the South Carolina border. Three nights in a row where it got below 24 degrees. Our worms survived. But it was hard work getting those little fleeces on them in time.We are back up to normal now but expecting some stormy weather over the weekend. We plan on watching Paul play lacrosse against Mars Hill College on Saturday and then driving on up to Ann Arbor. I have surgery there Monday morning to remove a cataract from the left eye and get a new lens. The surgery will take about 15 minutes at the Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan hospital. I wanted the new lens to be a Superman Special with x-ray vision but they will only give me a lens that will provide 20/20 vision. Or maybe it's 20/40 because they say I will still need reading glasses.
I was glad the state attorney general had some sense and dismissed all charges against the Duke lacrosse players. I don't know who I am more displeased with -- the district attorney who rushed to judgement, the Duke administration that cancelled the lacrosse season and forced out the coach, or the news media that fanned the flames. It was not a sterling moment in our history of jurisprudence.
Have you heard Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton aplogize yet for what they said about the case? I haven't either.
CBS fired Don Imus, which is okay by me. But the slopppy news media forgets that BET -- Black Entertainment TV, a late night source of a lot of televised gangsta rap which denigrates women worse than Imus -- is owned by Viacom. Which owns CBS.
Where have all the reporters gone?
Gone to retire every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
