Have you seen this video yet?  I never got into Justin Timberlake as a singer (probably because of the Britney connection) but I like him as an actor.  He's very funny!

Apple Bags - Avoiding Moths when Growing Apples

I'm trying a technique that I've read about online.  To avoid apple worms (codling moth larvae) we've cut holes in the bottom of paper bags and placed them over the apples when they reached about an inch across.  We then stapled the opening of the bags closed after folding a few times.

So far we've lost a few bags to storms but most have stayed on.  I really hope that this technique will work because I would really like to eat our own home-grown chemical-free apples!

Wordless Wednesday

My apple trees.  They were planted last year.

Wordless Wednesday

National Aquarium in Washington DC

Photos taken by my daughter on her Senior Trip

I thought Aspies were supposed to be good at math

Well, my dreams of the boy's future career as an engineer are drying up.  His second grade teacher sent home a math paper that needed to be redone.  Out of 20 questions only 3 were correct.  Admittedly, it's subtraction with regrouping but it wasn't the regrouping he had the issue with.  It was the subtraction.

Here's an example problem and our conversation about it.

20-16= 16.

Me:  What's 10 minus 6?
Boy:  Can't you just tell me the answer?
Me:  Of course not, you won't learn anything that way.
Boy:  Dad tells me the answers.

Me:  Hmmph, what's 10 minus 6?

Boy:  *Thinks for a bit* Isn't it something like 8 or 9?

Me:  No, it's nothing like 8 or 9.  You do realize that there's only one correct answer to a math problem, right?  It's not a matter of opinion.

Boy:  Mooooooooooom.

The conversation continued in this vein until I finally dragged the correct answer out of him.  I will admit to telling him the answer to the last two.

So now that we've ruled out careers that involve people skills and math, I'm keeping my eyes open for ads like this.

Help Wanted

Gamers needed.  Excellent pay and benefits.

Ability to play video games for hours without 

moving or blinking is a must.  Enjoyment of 

watching hours of youtube videos of people

playing the same game you just played is a 

plus.  If you can then spend the remaining hours

of the day talking about said games... you're our man!

I LOVE (love love) Daylight Savings Time

I went out at 7pm and the sun was still shining. Amazing!  And who needs sunshine at 5am?  Not me that's for sure.  I say we go to daylight savings time all year long.  Keep all of the sunshine for when I'm awake.

My only complaint is that as I'm getting older I notice a bit of "jet-lag" each time the time changes.  Anyone else have that issue?

What do you think?

I bought myself a present!

I rarely spend money on myself.  It's a mom thing I guess.  But I decided that I wanted to get a dragonfly necklace and so I started hunting on Etsy for something like a friend has.  The end result is nothing like what I was looking for... I think it's better.

I joke that I designed it myself.  What really happened is that I saw elements that I loved in two different necklaces and I asked the owner of Kateemarie if she could make a custom necklace for me and she was happy to do it.  She even took some lovely pictures of it that she posted on the listing.