What I Learned in August

  • Some research shows that mosquitos can detect the blood sugar levels of their victims from a distance of up to 50 feet away, and they go after the sweet people.
  • I learned to identify dragon fly larvae and mosquito larvae.
  • A cooper is a person who crafts barrels.
  • Messrs is a word that refers to more than one formal gentleman together in one place, kind of like a plural for Mister.
  • I learned to disassemble our family tent on my own.
  • Atomic bombs actually explode in the air above the earth rather than on impact like I had always assumed.
  • All of my future smores will involve peanut butter from here on out.  Peanut butter makes smores amazing.
  • British colonies in the New World in the 1700’s were forbidden to manufacture their own textiles.
  • The birchbark that was used for the outer covering for shelters used by Ojibiwe people rested on poles tied together, but each piece of bark had sticks attached to the end so that the bark could be rolled up easily and transported to the next place.

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