🎉 Happy Anniversary!

It is our wedding anniversary, and we are bringing dinner in. I shall pick it up after my haircut. COVID numbers are rising again in Ontario. We are being careful. 

We were married on my late parents' front lawn by the lake in 2002 in Bala, Muskoka. 🥳  

 

It is clearly the end of summer. The caterpillars are beginning to get into chrysalis or cocoons. 

The mysterious eggs turned out to be aphids!

Then there are caterpillars, and a Viceroy butterfly.

I spotted this caterpillar last week on the swing bench. This chrysalis was under the canopy yesterday, but it attached itself to the roof fibres. It fell off, the fibres just came out, and I brought it up to the house.

It is either an Eastern Comma, or Question Mark butterfly. They like the hops. We'll see if I can get a video of it eclosing. 

Poor JB had to encourage this little tree frog to find another chair. We've enjoyed sitting out back, although it was chilly Monday!

Happy grasshoppers, being 'friendly.'  

I have decided that Fred is a male, as they don't have any teats for suckling babies. The kits are weaned by 2 months. I must say I am disappointed, although it is fun watching them. They have short lives, and are certainly apt to be roadkill. PBS says 2 - 3 years is an average lifespan, although in captivity they can live 14 years.

 

Fred Aug. 21 busy as a beaver from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

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Breaking the Binary

My regular morning show provided an excellent interview with a non-binary guest, Myles Sexton. They are an articulate, guest, who uses gender neutral pronouns. (I'm not too old to learn this!) 

I had a discussion with a client who believes that teachers were grooming kids to be gay. That is totally shocking to me. I said it just doesn't work that way! Heaven knows it is difficult enough as teachers  to get kids to do homework, never mind changing their gender. Our new generation knows their own minds. They deserve to be listened to and respected. 

Speaking of change... 

Guess what?