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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

They are rarely seen around here in the summer. I googled "butterfly arizona" 
and pics came up and that one looked like the one in my yard.  I don't know 
what kind of monarch (I'm not too knowledgeable, just like to look )  :) .

There was a guy on the news this morning paddling a pumpkin (big pumpkin he 
had hollowed and used as a boat).  I didn't see from where, but it was a 
biggg pumpkin ....bobford


--- On Sat, 10/11/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] butterflies & Okra
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 3:48 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > I just saw my first fall butterfly (the link below is
> a pic of the exact AZ butterfly, but it is not my pic) while
> checking for tomato fruit (still only a very few tiny
> green).  I cut okra for the third day running, maybe have
> enough to make a small okra creole to go with grilled
> Porterhouse , tonight......bobford
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.free-nature-animal-butterfly-wallpaper.com/butterfly14.html
> >   
> Bob, curious:  you don't have butterflies in the
> summer?  Too hot?  
> Dry?  Or?  Never thought about it before.  We see few now,
> and in 
> another couple of weeks, after a hard frost which we still
> haven't had 
> here,  will see none anymore this year.   Your little
> Monarch guy likely 
> on his way to Mexico where they winter.  I read the other
> day it takes 4 
> hatches to make the trip back as far as
> Maine.....wonderful.
> 
> Susan Jane, who's getting out her yucky clothes and
> then going 
> downcellar to fish out the SawzAll for the big pumpkin race
> tomorrow.  
> Went and looked at my team's pumpkin this morning and
> not sure how we'll 
> do; it's pretty lopsided. :-(