Ants; Noah; Microbe Cloud; Dandelions; Giants; Holy Water; Diet Success

Nice sunny mild day.  Lots to do, but I won't tell you what.  sorry.

Do you have Ants?

In Bottom Line Personal, Mary Hunt said that if you put uncooked Cream of Wheat on ant nests and spread it where ants travel, the ants eat it... and then it expands in their stomachs and kills them.  (sounds gruesome for the poor ants.. I wonder if it works.)

I tried it, but I don't know if that is why our ant population has been decimated.  I see a tiny ant once in a while, but not like before.  Maybe there is something to it.

Bible Study

A Sunday school asked, "Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was on the Ark?"

"No,"  replied Johnny.  "How could he, with just two worms."

Yuck!

The Week magazine writes that "every human body is surrounded by an invisible cloud of millions of microbes that is as unique as our fingerprints."

Even after we leave a room, a "signature" of our presence is left behind.  Our breath exudes streptococcus and our skin emits propionbacterium.   It's a wonder our species is still viable.


In Praise of Dandelions

Christopher Andreae writes in the Christian Science Monitor Weekly about the "lowly" dandelieon.

I quote:  "...lately, it ( a strip of ground)  has been alight with thousands of these miniature  yellow suns.  Each flower is, in fact, like a child's rendition of the sun in paint or crayon, a circle of  yellow rays with a hotter center in school-bus yellow.   It is not a delicate or subtle flower head.  It is brash, emphatic.  It shines out even when everything around is growing fiercely and freshly."

And finally:  "Dandelions, glorious heralds and denizens of spring, are here to stay.  Here, there, and everywhere.  We might as well enjoy them."

Big Guys

One of my sources says that Neanderthals averaged 6'5" in height, while today's men average 5'11".  Well, this height thing has been going up for years... at one time, at 5'7", I was considered to be at  average height.  Now that I have lost 4 inches in height... I am a "squirt."

Mental Floss magazine says that 6'5" Dutch artist, Arne Hendriks is not proud of using more than his share of global resources.   He says that we are running low on everything and still, humans are making matters worse by growing taller, living longer and reproducing more.  He thinks that people need to shrink down to 20 inches. 

At that height, we would use only 2% of the resources we consume now.  So... we need to stop eating growth hormone-stimulating food.  He says that an additional perquisite is that dwarf-sized people do not get cancer or diabetes. 


Bless me, Father

The Week reports that Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Bob Brady stole a half-full glass of water that Pope Francis drank from during his 2015 address to Congress.  He used the water to "bless" his staff and family.

Chew on This

An older man lost 50 pounds.   At his book club, everyone was dying to know what the secret was.  He just smiled and said, "oh, it was really pretty easy, but I don't really want to talk about the secret."

After the meeting, one of the other members approached him again.  "Pleads, Joe, I'm
desperate to get these extra pounds off.  Can't you just let me in on your secret?"

"Well, okay, but you have to promise not to tell anyone,.   I was really struggling, but then I heard on a talk show that  you have to stop eating late at night, so no I just take my teeth out at 7:00 PM. Works like a charm!"

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