Houston Zoo 2017 with the Bigger Cahoona - The Fly Has Landed / Pennies from the Sky

All of God's creatures are beautiful in a way.  Attended a talk at church last night (Feb 4th) and learned how complex the DNA strand of an amoeba is...then to think about that of a fly, or us!  Incredible stuff.
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Flies were everywhere growing up in Orange.  This was a time when houses weren't quite as sealed as they are now, and air conditioning not as common, so folks kept their windows open more.  So the flies came in.  There were so many in one area of our house - the playroom, which had the windows open most of the time - that my mom paid us kids a penny apiece if we brought them dead to her on a paper plate.  One day my brother Allan earned a whole dollar for a hundred of the buggers (pun intended).

Then one of our neighbors, Tim Lewis, caught wind of the opportunity and came over to present flies of his own, claiming they were executed on premises.  He was fired once Mom discovered the ruse...