OT Things to ponder

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

But you are not a lizard, you are a Gorn. There is a lot of difference. Besides, you have a starship and can move to a cooler planet if you need to.

Now that's downright unpatriotic. What planet is cooler than Earth?

[BillBrown]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

But you are not a lizard, you are a Gorn. There is a lot of difference. Besides, you have a starship and can move to a cooler planet if you need to.

Now that's downright unpatriotic. What planet is cooler than Earth?

Uranus?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

But you are not a lizard, you are a Gorn. There is a lot of difference. Besides, you have a starship and can move to a cooler planet if you need to.

Now that's downright unpatriotic. What planet is cooler than Earth?

Uranus?

Oh yuck! Incidentally, on reptiles its a cloaca ...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

But you are not a lizard, you are a Gorn. There is a lot of difference. Besides, you have a starship and can move to a cooler planet if you need to.

Now that's downright unpatriotic.

warspite1

You sound like Sam Eagle [;)]

[geofflambert]

I planted some milkweed in my garden this year. I now have actually seen a Monarch butterfly visiting it. All the plants have gone to seed so it wasn't, I suppose, looking to feed. Crossing my fingers that it was a she and she was depositing eggs. Pic isn't real good as it was flitting around a lot and I was lucky to get this.

[geofflambert]

another

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I planted some milkweed in my garden this year. I now have actually seen a Monarch butterfly visiting it. All the plants have gone to seed so it wasn't, I suppose, looking to feed. Crossing my fingers that it was a she and she was depositing eggs. Pic isn't real good as it was flitting around a lot and I was lucky to get this.

I thought they only laid eggs in the forests of southern Mexico, near the borders, and in northern areas during our summer? Isn't STL too cold for eggs to survive until spring - and doesn't the milkweed above ground die off during the winter?

[geofflambert]

No, actually they don't lay eggs in Mexico at all. During their migration north, five generations are produced along the way with most of the progenitors dying along the way. The adults who return to Mexico and some places in southern CA do not reproduce while there, normally. It's important to have milkweed growing as early as possible each year so that the 1st generation of eggs can be laid. Since I just planted this spring it wasn't soon enough for that but as they are perennials they will be fine next spring. The hope here is if there have been eggs layed and adults emerge in time that they head south to overwinter rather than try and complete the migration north.

[geofflambert]

In any case, I have lots more seed now to plant and if I plant now it will come up in plenty of time for the next migration.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I planted some milkweed in my garden this year. I now have actually seen a Monarch butterfly visiting it. All the plants have gone to seed so it wasn't, I suppose, looking to feed. Crossing my fingers that it was a she and she was depositing eggs. Pic isn't real good as it was flitting around a lot and I was lucky to get this.

I thought they only laid eggs in the forests of southern Mexico, near the borders, and in northern areas during our summer? Isn't STL too cold for eggs to survive until spring - and doesn't the milkweed above ground die off during the winter?

Oh, and it is actually northwestern Mexico and the habitat has been ravaged both by storms knocking down the trees they collect on and illicit lumberjacks. I'm wondering if artificial trees could be manufactured which could stand in for the real thing, I just don't know enough about it.

[geofflambert]

And by the way, I've seen several visitations today after my original post, including one instance of seeing two Monarchs at the same time. Yay!

[BBfanboy]

Just give the artificial trees to the illicit lumberjacks and let momma nature take care of reforestation!

[geofflambert]

Just had a thought. It's not like that happens very much. Perhaps we could show our gentility by instead of calling disruptors of the forum "trolls", those who come and criticize and then disappear forever, how about we call them myrmidons? Call them that because they deliver forumic acid. [:'(]

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Just had a thought. It's not like that happens very much. Perhaps we could show our gentility by instead of calling disruptors of the forum "trolls", those who come and criticize and then disappear forever, how about we call them myrmidons? Call them that because they deliver forumic acid. [:'(]

Why not just be nice to them?

Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that? [;)]

[geofflambert]

But that was the idea, treat them as the warriors who were led by Achilles.

No S'mores though, that would be treating them like children.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

But that was the idea, treat them as the warriors who were led by Achilles.

And I just wanted to quote a movie. Although only the second sentence are actually part of the quote. [8D]

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

But that was the idea, treat them as the warriors who were led by Achilles.

And I just wanted to quote a movie. Although only the second sentence are actually part of the quote. [8D]

Fine, I still say no S'mores. [;)]

[Orm]

Never eaten a S'more. I had to look it up to know exactly what it was.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Never eaten a S'more. I had to look it up to know exactly what it was.

S'more - the closest thing one can get to saying "May I please have some more of that?" when the mouth if full of the gooey but tasty mess!

A Boy Scout/Girl Guide tradition around campfire just before retiring to our tents. A lot of de-sticky-ing first though!

But I am OK with giving the interloper s'mores because if it stuck their keyboard up that would serve them right!

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Never eaten a S'more. I had to look it up to know exactly what it was.

Swedes are such uncivilized barbarians they don't know what S'mores are without looking them up on the internet!
You don't know what it means to look into the eyes of a marshmallow, impale it on a stick, hold it over a campfire to hear it squeal while it still lives,
and put its corpse in a coffin of Hershey's chocolate encased by graham crackers. Gustavus Adolphus would die of embarrassment if he weren't already dead.

[:'(][:D]