Tiff for Christ Blog

 Nine years ago, when I wass at an appointment in a place I have never been to and never will return. I did not know anyone there, no phone numbers, and the place did not have any social media presence at the time. The appointment was to verify that I am, in fact, legally blind and ineligible to drive and the like. So, I had a paratransportation bus scheduled to pick me up between 3:30 pm and 5:30pm. The building closed at five, so I had to leave. I sat just outside the door on the bench to wait with a cup of water since it was a hot day. I slowly watched the cars leave the parking lot from the building and other buildings in the compound. Then I see the bus pull in at 5:45pm but not all the way into the parking lot. I was confused and worried since it turned around and left. I called the dispatch and they sent another bus for me. And again, it pulled in and turned around leaving me. At this point, I was very concerned. I called again, and they sent yet another one, this time a van. Th

  I was holding a harvested set of flowers my mom found for her butterfly gardening hobby, and my daughter said tehre’s an ant on the car window on the inside, and it got me to thinking about the fungal disease that affect ants. There’s an interesting fact about disease control the ants do to make sure nothing will infect their colony. The fungal bacteria, once it infects an ant, starts to control their body and starts walking in a zombie-like manner and is infectious. The infect ant climbs up a plants and hides under a leave, and the fungal disease grows and coating the ant entirely in spores. Then the spores start falling onto other ants. Most often located right above the anthill. So, you can imagine the disaster this would wreck on the colony as it spreads. The good news is the colony can detect if an ant is infected because the infect ant starts to seep out a toxin from their skin that tells other ants the infected ant is dead. The fungal has started taking over the brain’s fu