Guitar Center cashiers don't often deal with grandmas in need of DJ black lights. It's clear they spend a lot of time selling microphone stands to mind-blown very-aged hippies-turned-rural-Texas-carpenters/musicians-a bit-crispy-around-the-edges. They're
not crazy, they're colorful.
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| 24-inch black light |
UV colorful, actually. I'm the eccentric the cashier will tell about at supper tonight, and that's refreshing. This old lady needed a black light to attract moths, he'll report, and she was gonna feed them over-ripe bananas, stale beer, smashed watermelon, and brown sugar. The cashier suggested I just buy mothballs. Nooooooo!
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| Ingredients plus $16 black light |
Had to go on down the freeway to Academy to buy a
headlamp. My kids would have loved
headlamps to play spelunkers back in the day. Vulcanologists was one of their favorite make-believe games.
Glad the
Dallas Morning News gave
column space to the Texas Discovery Garden's "Black Light the Night" for National Moth Week.
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| Clothespins to hang the screen. |
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| My cool new $9.98 headlamp. |
The headlamp has red LED for night vision and bright white LED.
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| Everything required for the moth observation station. |
Made a special trip to the grocery store for the brown sugar. Now I can whomp up moth "sugaring" bait in the blender. And
the roadies won't mind.
© 2013 Nancy L. Ruder
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