Maybe I should have been some kind of research person.  The only thing is, my mind gets so excited about everything I see, that it is so difficult to stay on task!  For example, I was catching up on my lesson plans, the first week of academia for us and already I am 'catching up, and I saw a study on silkworms for our information about the Chinese Dynasties. 

   Cool!

 So I get online and start looking for silkworm info... where oh where did my silkworm research go?  To the solar cookstove site! 

  WHAT??!!??

 NOW I am thinking, " I have got to get this info to my friends who go to Ecuador on Medical Missions. (I wanna go..... " I digress, again)  Then I download the plans for making one of these stoves, wondering somewhere in my brain, how in the world I went from silkworms to solar cookstoves?

   Oh YEAH!!!

 You have to boil the silkworm pupa to get all of the silk from the cocoon! To un-spin it and twist at least 5 together to get a good thread for weaving... then there's the loom... 

 Follow me? 

   Vague, I know, but now we are going to have a cook-out with a solar cookstove to celebrate my sister and brother-in-laws purchase of their first home... after we make the stove, that is.!

 Maybe I need to start sleeping in a little later to be able to stay awake for such times as this. 

Goodnight, sweet silkworms and solar cookstoves, silk-thread and boiled cocoons, goodnight!

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