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One spam notice today. Could be worse.

Thunder and apocalyptic rain interrupt our cool late Julyness. Fortunately I made it indoors (to my aunt's, actually, since I'd contrived a rare afternoon off) before the monsoon hit. Fortunately the tripping pre-schoolers, out for a chilly wade in a local park's fountain, got back in time too.

My squash plants produce flowers, but half Ontario's bees died last winter so I doubt they'll produce squash. One can eat the flowers, but: I took a bite of one last week and found two wasps inside, either mating or too comatose to register the intrusion. The flower was closed up on itself; I suspect my squash plants of being related to Venus flytraps.

Five weeks post-solstice and 8:30 is l'heure bleue. Useful Wunderground tells me that days grower shorter at the rate of one minute 13 seconds per diem. So now I know.

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I'm rather glad that the wasps inside the flower you bit were comatose. Whether it was post-coital triste or for any other reason.

You could always hand pollinate ...

(googles) That requires being able to tell male squash flowers from female ones, which, as the old joke has it, is a matter of interest only to another squash plant.

Oh, so am I. Have known people who got their lips stung by wasps. Was not pretty.

The bees died? Is it cold that does it ... or some other thing. I uhmm don't actually know about how long bees live. (except that some die after they have stung something)

But surely there are also other insects that will pollinate. Hence the wasps maybe. So very glad you did not crunch on those. *shudder*.

It might be the cold, but is more likely the pesticides thta are taking out bee colonies around the world.

Maybe the wasps will pollinate, if they ever wake up. Found another comatose one in another flower today. ripped it open and after a minute wasp wandered out unsteadily and flew away.

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