Today is the day that Huli goes to the laundromat to do the weekly laundry. I often help her do this but sometimes she prefers to do it by herself to get some alone time. She goes to the same place each week where she has become friends with Jackie the manager of Anna's Laundromat. I did end up meeting up with her later in the day in time to help fold clothes coming out of the dryers.
While Janet was doing the laundry I got on the motorcycle to find something around this area to do outside, since it was so nice, and that you wouldn't find in many other places in the country. In doing some research on the internet I came across just the place. The name of the place is Weeks Bay Pitcher Plant Bog. As the name implies it is the home of a bog but not just any bog. This bog is known for the collection of Pitcher plants that grow here. A Pitcher plant is a carnivorous insect eating plant kind of like a Venus flytrap except it catches the insects differently. A Pitcher plant lures the insect into the pitcher and keeps it there by downward pointing hairs and very slippery walls inside the plant. Once in the bottom of the pitcher the insect is digested. The Weeks Bay Bog was near Mobile Bay and turned out to be about an 85 mile round trip. The weather was in the low 70's today so it was a perfect day for a ride.
By the way I am not being a male chauvinist I have offered to do laundry by myself but this is one job Janet won't let me do without her supervision. For those of you who have followed the blog for a while you already know this is one of her pet peeves and she has a very specific way of doing things. Me shrinking one of her sweaters about 40 years ago to a size that would almost fit a Barbie doll may also have something to do with this. I used to go along just to take a ride in one of the dryers but I'm too old to do that anymore... I think.
Here are a few pictures from today.
Pretty neat shadows. However it somehow magnified my width but shrank my height.
I need one of these little shrimp boats.
Pretty amazing.
