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Beautiful rainy cool morning
Good day for reading, knitting, traipsing about wondering what to do.
Yesterday was a maelstrom of activity
Tomatoes collected and and ripening, need another windowsill
I finished the sock heels, here's a clean pair of heels, so to speak
It's a pleasure handling that soft old denim and the sari silk. And the vest slips on so smoothly. Lining for the win.
I did finish the Fethering audiobook while I was knitting and sewing.
In the evening, comfort food, here pink blancmange, because I needed a little something
Marie's great explanation of the difference between viceroy and monarch butterflies over on her Island Musings blog (go there for wonderful wildlife photography and knowledgeable nature observations, from Prince Edward Island) set me off on a tangent, why are you not surprised.
It's this: what hierarchy-crazed lepidopterists ran about naming butterflies for monarchs, red admirals, viceroys, and moths for emperors? What equally crazed grammarian named the comma butterfly? Were they rewarding their benefactors who financed the expeditions maybe?
And what about the naturalists who angrily named beautiful plants lousewort, scabious, henbit, hogweed? Were they mad because all the grant money went to butterfly people flittting about with nets pretending to be Nabokov? I only ask. Because that's how my frivolous mind works when I have no one to talk to.
Happy day everyone. Try to be silly, it's good for you and entertains the neighbors.
