Very pretty pic!! I collected 36 eggs on the Asclepias curassavica the other night. Somebody when on a laying spree. :) My plants were started from seed, but they are not as big as yours, and are not flowering yet. They are about 4 - 8 inches tall, but very healthy. Apparently the mama Monarch liked them! I will have to start supplementing with wild milkweed to raise this many.

I only need to get the pictures uploaded to snapfish... it's possible the bowl of the boy's is going to be not grouted...we don't know yet, cuz court is in an hour and a half..it'd be a fine bowl, as is..... I need to leave in a few minutes, to the juvenile court house...if his mom gets custody, they will be leaving for Oregon this afternoon. this girl/lady is the same age as my oldest daughter..eleven days apart and is the daughter of a friend of mine, that I've known for 40 years... my friend lives in Corpus Cristie and advised her to call me, when she was at the CPS office, here in town and needed a safe place, right then...man, expedited background checks and a visit from the case worker and CPS case worker, here at the house and my place was approved, right there on the spot... ( I swear, they must have had blinders on...lol cuz my place is filled to the rafters with art supplies and not a lot of space to do any square dancing, in my front room!!) that was last Monday..and here we are, 11 days later and the future is unknown for them but it's a new beginning, either way... Zach went through trama and I watched a transformation, while he worked on his glass piece.. here, on this forum, we all talk about how doing mosaics is a healing process.. Zach got a broken finger, when he blocked a blow to the head, when his dad was beating him up... the dad had also taken everything important to Zach, including little clay pieces he had made, from first grade on...the kind made in the classroom, with clay, glaze and firings...all of his favorite games, his laptop (I think I mentioned he's 14 and is a very sensitive boy)and made Zach ride with him to the landfill...then threw all of his belongings in the dump and said he would have to work to pay for the trip to throw it all away... it was a cruel and needless assault on Zach, both physically and emotionally.... This week's journey helped him take something broken, both from himself and other things and make something beautiful from it.... he first walked in the house with a rather empty look in his eyes.. this morning he's full of hope... I only wish and pray the judge sees the same thing.... I have his bowl and some of my projects, in a display case right now, with an overhead light and it's so pretty... it's a 6 hour drive to where she lives and we've already been talking about her coming up to visit friends and an aunt, or me driving there for a couple days..but not in winter...I would take grout with me...lol the lexel is in a tube just like the GE11 and is 5 oz...it was under $5...I think it was like $4.85 or so.... it's a lot cheaper if it can be found in a 12 pack but then again, I'm not going to do that...lol it's gone a very long way, with just the 5 oz... the number on the tube is 13013, evidently to be sure which one it is, between clear or white or something... at least that's what I noticed, ....it's on the bar code and this one says 31525 13013 super elastic sealant it also says it sticks to wet surfaces...guess that would be in an emergency, to maybe fix an aquarium...?? I'd better be going now, to get to the court house...

2. A cecropia was laying eggs and well this happened. They are laid around her leg.

Hi Caroline ... and all. I was surprised by your title ... up here, "PM" means "Prime Minister" (of our whole country, yet!). I thought, "Don't tell me that you have a Prime Minister ... counting eggs, too!". We're having a federal election coming up in October, so the major parties have been electioneering for some time. There have long been two major parties in our fair land, with another democratic socialist thrown in for good measure, who haven't traditionally had a major following ... ... and then, a few years ago, when a substantial part of the population in Quebec were talking about separating, they formed another party that sent some members to sit in our federal parliament. And then there are the Greens. This time, the somewhat untried son of a former prime minister is leading one of the major parties, but a union of the right wing side earlier resulted in their group forming a majority government a few years ago, and some fuss among them and a charismatic leader of the democratic socialists resulted in the democratic socialist party becoming the official opposition in the last parliament ... ... so now there's more or less a three-way race between the two traditional parties and the democratic socialists which has been the opposition recently. So ... I was wondering about a PM counting his eggs ... ... before they hatch? Come October., maybe? These guys can come up with Purple prose ... ... but if there are Martins among their crew ... ... I don't know their first names! ole joyfuelled ... who's unimpressed by political attack-ads: if ya ain't got somethin' worthwhile to say about your program - I don't care to listen to yer rant