We have the perfect weather for growing citrus. A bit of sandy soil, regular watering and a bit of fertilizer twice a year and you can't go wrong. Since it doesn't really freeze here much, they do just fine. This is a lemon tree (I think) that is in a container at the car wash. How do you explain evolution to a six-year-old? For that matter, how do you explain it to people who think the world is 6,000 years old? One is about as easy as the other. Noah and I were watching a documentary called, Walking With Prehistoric Beasts this morning and in one scene he saw something that looked like an ape, walking upright like a human. It totally baffled him and started a whole discussion about what it was. He wanted to know if all the monkeys turned into people? But, how about the monkeys that are still here? I know otherwise intelligent adults who ask that last question. Even some who will still protest that they are not descended from a monkey. Of course that assertion is true. We did not descend from a monkey or an ape. We merely share a common ancestor with that branch of the tree of life. If we both, monkeys and humans, trace our way back down our little branches, we eventually find our common ancestor. Farther back, the ones we share with life forms totally different than us, like Hippos, maybe. Eventually, we all trace ourselves to the first life form. The inescapable conclusion is that we are all distant relatives of one another. Tigers, ants and people. Richard Dawkins has a new book out called, The Greatest Show On Earth. Dawkins explains why what we know of evolution is true. The Bible-Thumper-in Chief at the store saw me reading the other day at lunch and asked what I was reading. I told him the title, fully expecting the worst, but he thought it was the story of the circus and that set him off on talking about himself. Close call. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky