Fun Monday

Our assignment for this week comes from Church Lady and she would like us to do the following: Post a photo of your purse and if you care to share, describe what's inside your purse. Do you carry everything but the kitchen sink? Or, do you prefer to go light and carry only the necessities, such as your money and cell phone. For the men who would like to participate, post a photo of your wallet and describe what's in your wallet.

I'm a simple pocketbook kind of person. I buy a pocketbook, use it till it's ready to fall apart, retire it usually to the trash can, and go buy a new one. I am not one to keep up with the trends or have a pocketbook to match each outfit. The inside of my pocketbook is very simple as well. A wallet, checkbook, pen, mini address and phone book, calculator, cell phone, somewhere on the bottom a tube of lip stick, somewhere else on the bottom chap stick and usually some loose receipts and change floating around. When I'm out, it seems like I'm always looking for something I wished I carried like a tissue or something to take care of a headache. Fortunately, I'm usually with my Mom or sister (Church Lady) and they're ALWAYS prepared.

Looks like this one is ready for retirement

Flip Flop Cowboy

Here's a funny story straight from the cowboy's mouth .

I looked out my window this morning to find all of my neighbors cows in my front yard. Her husband wasn't home, so I spent the first few hours of the day playing cowboy while wearing flip flops no less. Those suckers are intimidating as hell, but after chasing them through the fields, woods, roads, and barbed wire I finally got them rounded up and into their pasture. At first Tracy throws me a giant bubble blowing wand to use as my poker, but after a while I thought if her husband comes home and see's me with this he'll give me a wedgie on the spot, so I got a big old stick. Tracy and the kids got a kick out of watching me. His wife gave me two big old steaks for my troubles, so it turned out pretty good. Of course Aaron (the boss man) was looking for me when I finally got back to work. You know when I told him he was probably thinking I must have pulled that right out of the white boy excuse manual.

Keep Em Coming

Exciting times happening at the Lizards of Oz. So far, three Ball Pythons have produced healthy clutches (they laid eggs.) Ruby, a normal Ball Python, produced 9 eggs which is the largest clutch ever produced at the Lizards of Oz. She's a big girl. The other normal Ball produced a clutch of 4 and the Bumble Bee produced 5 eggs this morning. Matt is expecting two more clutches from his Western Hog Nose snakes and possibly from his Angolan Pythons.

The eggs will incubate for 60 days or so at a temperature of 88 degrees. Mating snakes takes timing, perfect temperatures and humidity, and patience. Once you fully understand and meet the snakes needs, mating will happen naturally and can often last for a full day. Girls, can you imagine that?

Below are pictures of the healthy clutches and if you'd like to see pictures of the mentioned Ball Pythons, please view the link above.

Stay tuned...

Wordless Wednesday

Painted Lady Fingers

Above are pictures of a Maple called Painted Lady Fingers. It's planted right outside of our kitchen window and I have to say, this is one of my favorite trees. The red tips on each point really look as if each one was carefully painted and the smaller leaves are long and slender giving the impression of fingers. It's a beautiful accent tree.

Picnic Anyone?

I have to brag about the awesome picnic blanket my mother in-law made and gave to me for Christmas.

It all started years ago when a friend showed me her picnic blanket that was made by her and her mother. I thought it was so cute and a great idea for me and MiMi (a.k.a mother in-law) to work on together since she could whip up anything on her sewing machine.

We ventured off to the fabric store and lo and behold, found the perfect fabric to use for my blanket. With good intentions of scheduling time to work on my project, I sent home the fabric with MiMi. But, days passed and soon the days turned into years, and my picnic blanket was forgotten about.

Then, for Christmas this year, MiMi surprised me with my picnic blanket. It was wrapped in a big box and I had no idea what was waiting for me inside. When I opened it, I was so excited to find the picnic blanket that I long forgot about. It looked exactly what I envisioned and even though I didn't take part in making it, it's a treasure that will always be near and dear to me.

If you would like a custom blanket made for you or a friend, let me know and I will give you MiMi's contact information. She can make it to your specifications or give you suggestions.