Monday Musings, July 22
Happy Monday Beautiful People!
For my friends in the US…how are you staying cool?
Wowza, it’s been a tad toasty lately! And while I’m not a diva in many respects, heat and sweat are up there with my least favorite things! Which makes my marriage interesting as Terry loves nothing more than a 95° with 95% humidity…suffice it to say we have battles over the thermostat.
Hope the image from last winter’s snow helps cool you down! ❄❄❄❄
Ok, back to summer.
If I had an insect crush, it would most definitely be the praying mantis! I found this little teenager-size praying mantis on our screened porch this week and relocated him to my herb garden. But here’s a question for anyone who can answer this for me…my rosemary has spider mites (so what’s new!) and I had been spraying it with neem oil to keep them at bay. BUT…now I am hesitant to spray if the praying mantis might be there…does anyone know definitively if neem oil will harm a praying mantis?
Fun Fact: You can tell the difference between a male and female praying mantis by counting the segments on their body…females have 6 and males have 8. Want more praying mantis facts?
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This post on cocktails that feature basil as an ingredient will help you cool down, summer style.
This Salad Dressing Recipe Grid is the bomb!
This delightful and refreshing Banana Ice Cream.
We are a cobbler, crunch, crisp kind of family…this is right up our alley.
Outtakes from the Apollo 11 astronauts…love the insight.
Finished A Visit From the Goon Squad and enjoyed the ‘off-beat’ness of it. Just started Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight which is a non-fictional account of the life of the author growing up in Africa.
My daughter and I are having a debate about semi-colons; she claims that they are not acceptable in formal writing while I rather like a semi-colon and think, when used properly, they are fine. Where do you stand on semi-colons?
Well, I have a whole slew of projects I’m working on today…hoping for a productive day.
Hope your week is wonderful my friends.
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Hugs,
I wholeheartedly believe in semi-colons in formal writing, when they are used properly — which is not often the case. I was taught that a semi colon links stand alone sentences, which are linked in thought in some way. Very powerful when used sparingly.
Hello there fellow semi-colon lover! When used properly (which is critical) they are such a lovely transition. Like you, I used them primarily to link 2 stand-alone but related sentences. Let’s stand tall against this semi-colon slander!!
Hugs,
Lynn