Yesterday while walking my crazy bookcase hopping dogs I came across this woolly bear caterpillar. When I was kid we used these little guys as a snow -day predictor. We would peer at them trying to determine if the black bands were bigger than the orange ones. If they had really wide really furry black stripes then it was going to be a long very snowy winter. Lots of orange meant no snow days. Also the direction they were traveling had something to do with it. Okay this guy I came across is more than half orange folks!
It was Thursday so Inga had voice lessons. I don't know how much she is learning but it certainly is a stress reliever for her. And Inga is a kid who needs that. I tried to make a movie of her singing with my digital camera which came out okay but it of course the camera creates .mov files instead of .avi. I can not figure out how to edit .mov files on a pc. No one has Macs in spite of the cute commercials and why don't all files work on both platforms? I ask you why must they purposefully aggravate me? It is the same with mp3 players and itunes. Why don't those tracks work on non- Apple players? Re%*)ds!
In spite of the aggravation I do love electronic gadgets. When it's time for dinner I just text up to Inga, "Time For Dinner". Way easier than yelling and teenagers seem to respond to texting like it was some form of mind control. I text her "Walk the Dogs" and she comes downstairs with the leashes in hand. Cool. I love filling my mp3 player up with songs that make my kids scream in pain while riding in the van. I find some sweet revenge in that. I love our Wii. I think might just get that Wii Fit for Christmas. But best of all I love my Kindle.( Electronic book) Since I bought it I am never without a book while waiting and I am often waiting for someone. It is very consumerish of me but still I love my gadgets!
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I'm slowly learning how to text, because of my grandchildren. Yesterday Alex texted me that he didn't have lunch money at school. He told me what to bring for his lunch, and of course I have to figure out how to text him back that I will bring it. I always have my cell phone with me but it does give me a start when it makes this big BEEP BEEP saying I have a text message.
I really enjoy reading your blogs. I too saw a woolly bear this week and it was more orange than black. I've always thought that the orange was summer and the black winter. I go so far as to think of one end of the caterpiller as January and the other as December. I have often thought that I should have a bumper sticker that says, "I break for woolly bears." It really saddens me to see all the little dead creatures in the road at this time of year. I break for everything and yes, I can see woolly bears when I'm driving down the road and I break for them too. I figure that my untimely demise will result from swerving for a frog on a rainy night and ending up upside-down in a ditch.
I backed out of the driveway yesterday and as I headed down the road I was carefully trying to straddle a woolly bear making the pilgrimage across the street when I glanced in my rearview mirror and noticed my neighbor was almost in my trunk...oops! I have seen several all black woolly bears this year which makes me think it will be a long, snowy winter. :-(
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