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| Blue sky above and open road ahead. |
Wednesday morning the dog and I walked to the watermelon field. To the south and west of us it was cloudy but there was blue sky above our road so all was well. The weather here in Grand Bay is very nice this time of year but it can fluctuate between very warm and very cool days pretty rapidly which turns some people off but not me. While the dog was walking around in the field I took a look at the turnip greens which have replaced the watermelons growing there before.
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| Look closely for turnip greens. |
They are about 1.5 inches tall at this point so you can now see them in their rows. As they grow the workers will thin them out which I am sure is a back breaking job. Around Thanks Giving and Christmas these turnips will be making really nice greens and in January they should have good sized turnips on them. They will most likely be purple top turnips. When we started back to the house I noticed a very pretty example of a spider which we always call a crab spider but is actually called a spiny backed orb weaver spider.
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| Yellow spiny backed orb weaver. |
This one is yellow but they show up in several colors around this area. You can see a similar example of a slightly different color on
Orkin's website. They make an web that has dash on it that make look like highway lane markers. These like the markings on the Golden Orb spider's web are probably used to confuse and steer insects into the web. Very tricky. I have been having pain in my feet which is a common occurrence for me as I walk so much. Just a word of advice to those who walk and wear dress shoes during the day. You know the ones , tight leather dress shoes with no cushion at the heel. Apparently those shoes have been causing me some heel problems which seem to have abated when I substituted more comfortable shoes during my work day. Just a word to the wise. If your feet hurt change your shoes. Thanks for reading my blog today. I hope you are enjoying it. Bye.
