You Have To See This

This is a graphic chart of unemployment in the United States. Click on the link, it's amazing.

Update on the meal worms. They have arrived. I did decide to bed them down in the laundry room; DH Matt's back has miraculously improved and he is not inclined to sleep in the den. He appreciates that meal worms are very quiet. He wouldn't even know that they are here if I hadn't told him. No, he doesn't need to see them, thanks. Also, no interest in a recipe I found for meal worm spaghetti.

I reeled off the names of a dozen women we know who have invited critters into their house; all of the women are aged 40-something. Most of them are rescuing dogs...this subject came up because one of our friends moved out of his house and into a rental in town when his wife took on 3 more rescued dogs. That brought their total to 6, all big dogs, in a small house. This was, as the saying goes, a "deal-breaker" for him.

I pointed out to DH Matt that this is biology at work. The women we know who are moving animals into the house all had children in their thirties . If they had followed the old biological pattern they would have had children by age 20 , and their children would have had children by age 20. So, no grandchildren....collect critters. DH Matt said he can deal with ducklings and meal worms. But, I'd better not rescue cats and dogs (said the man who rescued 13 cats and moved them into our first house...achoo! We have 3 left, all outside cats but not by their choice).