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Borrego Springs, CA

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Twiddling my thumbs

Not much going on in this part of Indiana right now.  Pretty much just hot weather, persnickety electricity, and laundry.  I won’t dwell on the electricity part.  Suffice it to say that it got fixed, once again, yesterday afternoon.

I did have an interesting encounter yesterday evening as I was outside dumping my tanks.  Someone shouted hello to me.  After spraying my hands off, I made my way to the edge of my site to meet a local woman, Linda (I think), that I have seen occasionally walking the roads of the campground in a bright orange vest.  Apparently she lives in a house a little ways down the road, and likes to walk the campground for exercise.  As I’ve mentioned before, hardly anyone walks around here.  They all just drive their golf carts around in circles.  I thought perhaps she was a birder since the vest has many pockets in it.  Turns out the reason she wears it is so she doesn’t get run over by one of those carts!  Ha Ha! 

After chatting a bit, and giving Emma a biscuit, she said, “Are you Judy Bell?”  When I told her I was, I then asked her how she knew that, and she told me she reads my blog.  What???  I was nonplussed.  Then the story came out.  In one of her walk-arounds, she ran into my friend Jack last month just before he pulled out of here.  During their chat, he gave her my website address, and she started reading my blog.  Good old Jack.  Didn’t know he was out finding readers for me.  Jack is one of a kind!

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While I was at Robyn’s today doing my laundry, we talked about the monarch caterpillars from last night’s post.  She was wishing that we could put some in a container so the grandgirls could watch the transformation.  We decided to use a big Tupperware cereal container that she had, and I’ll put a tin foil lid on it with small air holes punched in it.  When I got back to the rig, I got the container all ready.  Wouldn’t you know it, I couldn’t find one caterpillar!  They all seem to have slowly crawled off for greener pastures.  (or, they’ve gotten eaten by a bird Sad smile)  I’ll keep looking, though.  It’s early in the season.

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Speaking of seasons, I noticed that DONNA had pictures of these flowers on her post this afternoon.  I used to grow them when I lived in Minnesota, but for the life of me I can’t remember their name.  I do have a problem remembering names, whether it’s a person, a flower, or even sometimes a bird. 

Thanks for stopping by… talk to you later,  Judy

19 comments:

  1. Good thing Linda was a nice person to meet, not a stalker. It is weird how people read our blog and we don't know they are reading it. Unless they choose to leave a comment, we never know who's there with us.

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  2. Looks like a hibiscus to me. Whatever it is, it's pretty.

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  3. Yes, hibiscus... Thought it a tropical flower..Is it tropical there :)

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  4. I agree, looks like a hibiscus. Its hard to do much of anything except twiddle your thumbs when it is this hot. Hopefully this heat will break one of these days.

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  5. It is a hibiscus....Hey...they say the Monarchs are very few and far between this year....which makes me sad..Usually we see some by now...but not this year....

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  6. That flower is definitely a pinkish red color!!!!

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  7. In this kind of heat, it is kinda hard to do anything but "twiddle" your thumbs. Your flower pics are pretty today. Hibiscus is the genral consensus.

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  8. When you are alone in the MH when you twiddle-does it make a sound? :)

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  9. One of our favorite treats from Trader Joe's is a mixture of cashews and dried hibiscus. They are quite sweet.

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  10. Linda is a great lady to talk with.
    Thanks Judy ! ! ! !

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  11. Yep... Hibicus. Not a native up in those parts, but definitely popular as a summer planting.

    Can't wait to meet more bloggers on the road.

    Oh, and you hardly ever forget a birds name! lol

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  12. Well I agree with everyone it looks like a Hibiscus but I don't think it would grow in Minnesota so it probably is something else! Sorry your little catapillers are gone ~ maybe they will show up again soon!
    Have fun
    Donna

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  13. I would say that this is a Rose of Sharon, which is in the genus Hibiscus, but is hardier than most tropical hibiscus plants.

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  14. Yup, Rose of Sharon, a hardier hibiscus. I miss mine, too!

    I love that Jack is doing PR for you!

    Happy, Waggin' Tails, FUREVER!
    Stumpy and me

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  15. I definitely don't have a club as to what that flower is, but it's beautiful. And I so love the picture of the bud. That's just really incredible. Thumb twiddling is something I've don way too much of lately. Sure will be glad when this summer is over.

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  16. Makes one wonder - just who is reading our blogs? I have friends and relatives who tell me they read but have never left a comment.

    So to let you know I read yours today - this was my comment!

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  17. That plant is some kind of hibiscus.

    To raise caterpillers, you might like to get a mesh laundry basket - the kind that has a lid that zips on. My grandson's pre-school teacher used one like that to raise monarchs in. You can just unzip it to add more food, and after the monarchs come out of of the pupa, they will have enough room to pump up their wings.

    And you need to look for the pupa other places than on the milkweed. The caterpillars move away to pupate.

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  18. good for Jack for finding you some new readers!..good thing that Linda was a nice person!..but aren't we all???

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