You walk into Lowe's and ask directions to find furnace filters and the salesperson replies, "do you mean air conditioning filters?"
You spot a tarantula crossing the street in front of your house.
The first morning glory blossoms open up in the month of May.
All of these events happened within a 24 hour period and served as a reminder that this is not Connecticut! We grew the morning glories from seeds (as we did in Connecticut) and we were trying to remember when we got our first brilliant blue blossoms last year. As I remember, it was mid summer--sometime in July.
It had been a while since I had seen a tarantula--an impressive, if somewhat daunting spider. I well remember that Buddy Grant (the class naturalist) brought a tarantula to school when we were in about the 4th grade. He proceeded to let the big, hairy spider crawl up and down his arms and invited all of us to handle the playful spider as well. As I remember, he had no takers. Tarantulas are, in fact, gentle and non poisonous. But definitely intimidating!
You spot a tarantula crossing the street in front of your house.
The first morning glory blossoms open up in the month of May.
All of these events happened within a 24 hour period and served as a reminder that this is not Connecticut! We grew the morning glories from seeds (as we did in Connecticut) and we were trying to remember when we got our first brilliant blue blossoms last year. As I remember, it was mid summer--sometime in July.
It had been a while since I had seen a tarantula--an impressive, if somewhat daunting spider. I well remember that Buddy Grant (the class naturalist) brought a tarantula to school when we were in about the 4th grade. He proceeded to let the big, hairy spider crawl up and down his arms and invited all of us to handle the playful spider as well. As I remember, he had no takers. Tarantulas are, in fact, gentle and non poisonous. But definitely intimidating!
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