Twenty Years in Missouri
Tag Archives: Insects
Yellow Jackets and Spiders
September 7 – This blog is primarily about a recent weekend. I started out the day doing some weed-eating in the back yard, and in the process disturbed a large spider in the grass. Quickly I rounded up a container … Continue reading
African Tales – Feeding the Multitude
July 21 – One year at the Rusangu Mission there was a famine, caused by a drought that killed off most of the local crops. The mission was responsible for providing food for the students, for it had been paid … Continue reading
Lumberjacks R Us
July 13 – After all of that cutting and carrying and tossing, I was not satisfied yet! I told Dale I wanted to read a bit and then go back with the push mower to cut the grass at the … Continue reading
Family Walks
February 22 – During walks when our children were small, son David would often rush ahead, carefully lifting each large stone near the water’s edge or protruding out into the water a bit, as he searched for crayfish. These “crabs” … Continue reading
African Tales – The Monkey and the Ants
September 12 – At Solusi, we kept our pet monkey outside, with one end of her line attached to a large tree that she slept in at night. My sister Jean had a white cat with two white kittens, and … Continue reading
Sting-a-ling-a-ling!
August 11 – Late last week just after I had put the second load of clothes on the line, I meandered over to the yucca patch near the road because I just had to pull the very tall weeds in … Continue reading
Mocking birds + Blue jays = Mockingjays?
July 5 – What would our life be without animals of all kinds–some nice and friendly, others never getting near enough to touch, some that scare folks who are afraid of them, some with their beautiful colors, and others in … Continue reading
Mowing and eating and cicadas
June 19 – No rain today, so they are saying. Was dry yesterday too, until a light rain fell late in the evening. We got a lot of mowing done in the afternoon after we got home from Pleasant Hill … Continue reading
African Tales – Caterpillars
June 7 – In a kopje in the area was a cave called Mlevu’s Cave, a cave where African Christians had hidden the belongings of the white missionaries who had fled to Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War. After the rebellion … Continue reading
Anyone need their windows washed?
March 16 – Just came in from the front porch where the thermometer announces that it is very comfortable out there with summer lawn chairs available for seating. While Dale read the book You Belong in a Zoo, I paged … Continue reading
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