Fly Trap Update

About three hours after baiting the fly traps with watermelon, they are already attracting flies.

Nathan at COS

Nathan is taking College Algebra (at 6:10 AM Monday-Thursday), Health, Repair and Management of Computers, and Forging. He is enjoying his four days of classes at COS. He has a good schedule except for that early class. He goes Mon - Thurs AM and Thurs afternoons. Between classes he hangs around in the library, outside, and runs some errands.

Janine at Covenant

Here is an update from Janine.

"Classes are going to be a lot tougher this semester, since now they are all upper division courses.  I am taking Principles of Management, Principles of Finance, Business Ethics, Accounting Information Systems, Business Research Paper, and 20th Century World History.  They will keep me busy, but I am enjoying each one so far.  The business professors especially are good at challenging us to excell, and very encouraging at the same time.

I am rooming with a different roommate again, Charity Masters.  Marie, who I lived with last year, graduated.  Charity has been a friend since freshman year, and we have already had a lot of fun together.  I joined her on her hall, so I also moved one floor up in my building.

Something that has stayed the same is my job at the school library.  I am working 14-15 hours a week this semester, but it doesn't really seem like it because my schedule fits in really nice with my classes, and the job is enjoyable.

Otherwise, I am back at it here in Georgia!  I do feel like I missed a summer, because the 4 hot days we had in WA weren't quite enough for three months, and here it is already cool and fall-like.  Oh, well, its not like I ever got very tan anyway!   :)" 

Labor Day

In spite of the holiday, we did a bit of work around the house. Keith and Nathan moved some old telephone poles to the side of the pasture to protect the fence posts. They have been replacing posts and then return to find another one broken. Hopefully this will help.

I had the fun job of emptying the jug fly traps. (Sorry, the kids would not let me post pictures). John told us that this was an effective way of killing flies. You put an attractant and water in a jug and top it with a baffled lid that allows flies in, but not out. Then you set it in a low sunshiny spot. The mixture starts to stink and that attracts the flies. I had attractant for four jugs. The fifth jug I experimented with and threw some cantaloupe pieces in the water to attract the flies. I caught just as many flies with the melon but I don't know if the other stinky jugs helped lure the flies. Today I emptied three of the jugs and refilled them with water and watermelon. We shall see if that works to get the flies into those jugs. If it does we can buy fruit and just use a little as fly attractant and eat the rest. I will have to update you on the results so you too can be as frugal as I am if it works.

In order to empty these putrid, maggot and fly infested jugs, you cannot be one who gets grossed out too easily. It supposedly makes a good fertilizer but I buried the contents further away from the house than my flower beds!