Bugs, technology, and those stinkin' goats
You know that feeling when you've completed your blog post and you want to change one tiny thing and you end up clicking something you didn't mean to and it erases the whole thing? Yeah? Good. Then you know how I feel right now. Let me just start over. Eesh.
Yesterday, I read this post over at On Just a Couple Acres about killing squash bugs. Now, if the words bug and kill are in the same title, then I want to read it. And not until I read this post did I realize what was eating my squash plants. I knew those little pearly things were eggs, but I didn't know what kind and I didn't know that what I call a stink bug is also a squash bug! So, I armed myself with duct tape and went out to wage war in the garden. I wrapped my hand with the duct tape, sticky side out and went to town on those pests. I also found the nymphs the post talked about and grabbed those, too. Ew. Gross. I also found some full grown stink/squash/nasty bugs and... well, to be honest, those scare me because I don't know if they will actually spray some kind of foul odor on me so I just flicked those as far as I could. I know, I know, "Dummy, they're just going to come back!" Well, maybe I'll have more courage by then to squish them, stink and all. Ugh. I was so happy I had learned something new and that my squash are now bug free! That is until the ones I sent sailing find their way back... but still.
Now, for some teachery stuff. Have you teachers out there seen the new Technology Tailgate blog? My, oh, my! It is simply amazing! Those teachers are my new heroes! I've already made a list of things to start this year. And that's just after a week of reading their posts! Click here to check it out or go to the button on my home page! You won't be sorry!
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