Thanks! I wanted to re-do my 'My Monarch Guide' since it is sort of, well, not as website looking, if you know what I mean, and outdated looking. I had done MMG when my Kindergarten class was a finalist a number of years ago in that Animal Planet contest and thought that perhaps making an updated version was a good idea. I have plans to add MORE to this particular site but time is the problem I am having. ;P Although I am trying to get more folks on the WEST learn of the Monarchs' plight, I am more than happy to include info for everyone. I don't want to put up pictures that I haven't taken myself, for copyright issues. But, I can definitely include links! I've got loads of new pictures of Monarchs because I've been busy raising more. In fact, just yesterday, while out getting some leaves for them, I was shocked when I came across seven Giant Swallowtail larvae on the Rue. I couldn't believe my eyes as this is a species that I've never seen in the winter here in SoCal. I kept thinking, "What the heck?" Of course, I've brought them indoors so they can finish their life-cycle safely (we have quite a few caterpillar-eating birds outside right now and I'd rather feed them mealworms).

Thanks, barnmom. I tried a little goof off last night, and then ironed a clean white cloth repeatedly. After pressing, I leave the cloth place till it cools a little, then peel it off. If I remove the cloth right away while it's still very hot it doesn't stick at all. Same thing if I use steam. I think it's going to take many more passes, but ironing a scrap fabric does seem to be the way to do it.

Thanks Red_Confetti! What a great find. I bookmarked them for safe keeping. I got my new printer a few months ago and just love it. What a beautiful machine! It's a Canon S9000. Was around $400 but the price has dropped a good ways. I printed out 13" X 19" digital pictures of my daughters cheerleading squad and they came out great. It'll do everything from envelopes to the 13 X 19 paper. Thanks again for the sites. Steve

Here's an article on best practices for assessing the veracity of news & the sites that promulgate it in our digitally connected age. I realized I've come to use most of these same techniques too, over the years: https://medium.com/@holden/how-media-literacy-gets-web-misinformation-wrong-45aa6323829d "How “News Literacy” Gets Web Misinformation Wrong I have a simple web literacy model. When confronted with a dubious claim: Check for previous fact-checking work Go upstream to the source Read laterally That’s it. There’s a couple admonitions in there to check your emotions and think recursively, but these three things — check previous work, go upstream, read laterally — are the core process. We call these things moves. They are generally usable intermediate goals for the fact-checker, often executed in sequence: if one stops panning out, then you go onto the next one. The reason we present these in sequence in this way is we don’t just want to get students to the truth — we want to get them there as quickly as possible. The three-step process comes from the experience of seeing both myself and others get pulled into a lot of wasteful work — fact-checking claims that have already been extensively fact-checked, investigating meaningless intermediate sources, and wasting time analyzing things from a site that later turns out to be a known hoax site or conspiracy theory site..." And 1 of the first things I check these days is the dateline on an article. I see so much stuff that gets circulated as if new, when it's from years ago. FWIW, HTH