I am such a fan of Bayer Crop Science products, I could be a salesman. Florida Ag as well recommends Imidacloprid, as do my citrus gurus from Texas A&M. All my Meyers get Imidacloprid twice per year; and while I might WISH that it killed bees, I never have any shortage of wild bees pollinating my trees. Why do I wish it might kill the bees?? No bees, no seeds. I have played with the idea of putting hives to make Meyer lemon honey; but I already have too many bees for my workers' safety. Here's a dirty little secret... In Argentina, the biggest exporter of Eureka lemons in the world, they put lots of bees in their lemon groves...more bees, more seeds; and the seeds are heavier than the fruit... great "plan?" if you are selling lemons by the pound. I sell my Meyers by quality; and I have nothing at all against bees; I only wish there were less of them, at least in my lemon groves.

I'm starting to see some judging of others' opinions and experiences ... Everyone is different. Some are paralyzed by the crisis and some spring up to make lemonade out of the lemons they are dealt, and others are somewhere in the middle. I have a high school senior too, but using the examples mentioned above, I don't see it the same, because I went to a school system overseas that had none of the graduation traditions that you have here in the US. There were no proms or big graduation ceremonies. You took your exams, school ended and you went onto the next steps in life. I also hear stories from many Americans that didn't go to prom and didn't particularly like their high school experience due to not being in the IN crowd. So maybe it shouldn't be such a big event? The school visits are great too, but I accepted and attended a graduate school without ever stepping foot in that State before, and that was before the internet and video tours existed. I feel bad my teen will miss out on some of these traditions, but I don't fell sorry for him. I see these as experiences that will help him grow and be more flexible when other crisis come his way during his lifetime. We've all had different experiences and handle adversity in different ways. Some curl up in a corner, some will tell you to pull yourself up from your bootstraps and the rest are somewhere in between. None of the reactions are better than the other, just different for different individuals. Maybe we don't understand that reaction, but unless you know exactly what that person has been through, I don't see how you can judge them ...

They are wonderful! Your use of colors is great; I thought the first would be my favorite, as I love those 'Fall-ish' colors, but when I saw the last one - WOW! It's so happy looking, and the design and your colors are VERY artistic. The children who receive them will have works of art.

Hi, Arcy, isn’t it nice that we all have choices? I’m quarantining while I wait to find out if I have the virus, because if I DO have it, I don’t want DH to get it, lest it make him actually sick for one thing, but also so he can still work, and so that DS doesn’t get it, lest it make him actually sick, but also so he can finish his degree. I‘m doing this for THEM. One thing I’m learning is, I rarely see my family anyway! DH works at home in his office the last several years anyway. DS is in college and doing classes from home, but even before this year he has done a mix of online and in-person classes, so that hasn’t changed much for him, but now he also has a campus job that is done, guess what?, online, because it deals with a database. I may see DH more now, because I’m home more! I certainly hear him more, because he’s in the kitchen under my room more, and cleaning up. (Maybe he’s learning that, when I load or reorganize the dishwasher, there is a method to my madness. Today I opened it to see that a bunch of plastic containers had flipped over and were filled with soapy water lol. I closed it right back up! Maybe he’s also learning why it bugs me so much that people want to leave their dishes on the counter on the other side of the sink from the dishwasher, instead of putting them IN the dishwasher.) There are families around me who have been badly impacted by getting actually ill from the virus, and I need to be sure that I can visit my mother in her care facility without worrying about getting people sick. I’d hate to be the one who causes one of mom’s caregivers to actually get seriously sick. This I think is important: My mother’s home caregiver is the one who gave her the flu in the first place, which led to pneumonia, which led to hospital and now a care home, almost 3 years ago, so I will do everything I can to keep that from happening to someone else. J didn’t feel that sick, that’s why (darn it) she came to work for her 4-day shift. To be honest, I’m starting to think that getting it is a crap shoot, because people who are so careful still get it, and sometimes devastatingly so. Me, IF I or my family going to get it, I hope it’s later rather than sooner, because the scientists are learning more about what it does, and why, and what to do about it, all the time, and if it impacts us in a major way, I hope by then they can get us better. For some people having the virus is not a big deal, but for others it IS. Until we understand why that is, I’m happy — well, at least willing — to hang out here with my view of the street. But I might have to order a comfier chair. I love my family, and I want them to be well.