Skeeters

If you think you are too small
to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.
—-Betty Reese


Did y’all think I was going to really talk about skeeters? Well, I am a little bit. They are foremost in my attention right now. I remembered this quote the other night while I was tossing and turning trying to sleep. Being menopausal, I get too warm under covers. A mosquito started biting my thigh and just kept on keeping on. By the time I got disgusted and went to get something to stop the itch, I had a welt on my thigh as big as my fist.

In Texas, because of all the rain we’ve been getting, mosquitoes are a horrible problem outside. Why, I was sitting on the porch this morning, and six of them surrounded me and tried to carry me off to their lair so they could dine on me at their leisure. They had me halfway across the yard before I could break free, I’m not lying!

My family is coming to visit on Sunday, and I already have a problem. My brother and his brood are allergic to my five cats. I had planned for us to picnic on the porch, but it’s dangerous out there with all those insidious little suckers waiting to find exposed flesh. So, I’m spending my day trying to eliminate all the breeding ground for the mosquitoes. I have my work cut out for me. Mowing, cleaning gutters and fountains, weed whacking…..

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I digressed, but y’all knew I would. Like I said, mosquitoes are not what I want to talk about. Yep, I’m back harping on the Share A Square program to make afghans for the children at Camp Sanguinity. Now, I thought that I would make it simple for you and for me by putting things on an update page. If you have gone to look, you might have noticed that there have been no updates. That would be because for three days my mailbox has been empty.

I know people are hooking away like crazy, because they tell me they are. I know that one person is sending 50 squares, another has a dozen, and someone else even got 150 squares donated! But, I can’t tell you about those until I have them in my hot little hands.

One of the participants wrote me and said that she had seen some people had sent a lot of squares. She asked if she should wait to send hers until she had a big pile. The answer to that questions is “NO PLEASE DON”T!” Yes, it’s impressive when someone sends me forty squares. I appreciate all that hard work, because it means there will be one square on forty different afghans. Until forty people send me one square, my volunteers can’t put together an afghan!

I would appreciate that just as much!

I have a group called The Happy Hookers who are going to spend an entire day working for the program on July 19th. I don’t yet have squares from 40 different people.

So I am begging all you “Skeeters” out there:
If you have a six inch crocheted square to send, please do it today!
Get an envelope right now and address it to:
Shelly Kneupper Tucker
P.O. Box 2241
Denton, Texas 76202

And, just like a mosquito keeps biting
on your rear until it gets what it wants,
I’m going to keep chewing on you
until we get these 140 afghans!

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The Share A Square project has ended, and the afghans were delivered on July 7th, 2008. Although we will not continue that project, an exciting NEW endeavor, called the Good Medicine Project is in progress for summer camp 2009. We hope you will join us.]

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