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Subject:Engine fires, urine, now Vanagon Butterfly Camping
From:John Rodgers
Date:Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:12:04 -0500

Going Vanagon Camping with the Family??

Try this when you are out Vanagon camping with the kids. They will love
you for it because all kids like butterflys, especially when theres lots
of them.

Squish a watermelon, strain the juice into a container, add pee, stir
and  pour over a bald spot of ground out in the open, preferably near
some areas with mixed fields and woods. Put some in some shallow saucers
as well. Scatter some of the red pulp of the watermelon around -
butterflies like the color. Then stand back.

Give the fluttering little guys some time to smell the water mellon
mix.  In a little while you will be covered up with butterflys of every
desciption.

Seems they like the sweet sugar in the watermelon, but they also like
the salts in the urine. And when they can find them both in the same
spot -- it's a butterfly treasure trove and they will come from all
over. It's kind of fun to watch butterfly ettiquete at such a banquet.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver