The path to wings.

The children could not part with the caterpillar when we got home. So they placed it in a plastic container and this morning woke up to a cocoon. The caterpillar is on its way to becoming a monarch butterfly.

A lazy Saturday afternoon was spent at Dalton Lake in the Black Hills. Henry reached up and grabbed a dragonfly, he also snagged a caterpillar.

Hannah snapped pictures of all the flowers.

Shedding blood for religon.

American troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since October 2001. We are there to establish and create and maintain the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Huh? Why is American treasure and blood being spent to support a country devoted to the rule of Islam? Using our military muscle to groom a nation whose guiding principle in their constitution is the rule of Islam? Where are my liberal friends who preach separation of church and state in the U.S.A? Are they proud of this?

Barn fun.

Off to the wild blue yonder.

Its good to have a local economist.

Our janitor also moonlights as an economist. Case in point, today he came in the crew room and said he can tell our company has gotten rid of a lot of employees because he rarely has to replace the toilet paper.

Raise your hand if you are a hawk.

Since President Obama signed the new treaty with Russia limiting and reducing the stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and the outrage by candidates and elected officials over his decision, its time to compare and contrast with our hero, Ronald Reagan.

Let's look at the reaction by Reagan when the Marine barracks were blown up by Islamic terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon 1983. Nothing. No ground troops stationed in the Middle East. No special forces involvement. No sustained air bombardment.

How about dealing with the Russians and their nuclear ambitions? Quote 'I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete'. Ronald Reagan.

President Obama has increased troops in Afghanistan and plans to maintain a troop level of over 50,000 American military personal in Iraq indefinitely.

Mr. Obama to this point is more of a hawk than Mr. Reagan ever was.