New Sidebar Photo: Nature Study Photo of the Week

Where we live nature comes to visit on a regular basis. Nature Study is done on an informal basis and seldom do we have to step outside of our yard for the experience. This time of the year it comes at such a fast pace I don't always blog about it. I added the picture on the sidebar so you can see what comes to call.

This week it was a skink. We have skinks all over the yard, but this was the largest and most colorful we have seen so far this year.

Friday Surprise

Earlier this week one of my uncles passed away. The funeral was in the northern part of our state and we were unable to attend. Aside from being unable to attend the funeral I was saddened because my mother would be there and I would not be able to see her. Imagine my surprise when these beautiful ladies showed up at my door today. Tigger had told me a surprise was coming and boy was he right. Below is aunt G. (on the left) and my mother (on the right).

I was so happy they were able to come down in visit. Z was also excited as his Mama is one of his favorite people in all the world. Did I mention they share a birthday? My mother claims part ownership of him and that's all right. We went to lunch and this was one of the many hugs Z initiated.


Posing where we had lunch. Tigger got off work and joined us. He knew about the surprise. What a great lunch.


More posing at our lunch. It was great to see them and show them around town a little, chat a lot, and spend some time together. We live several hundred miles away and this was the first time she or my aunt had been able to visit. I'm sorry my dad, who is at home, missed this. We would have loved to have seen him too.

Why Sleep is Important or Funny Things on a Thursday Afternoon

To be fair, we didn't get much sleep Wednesday night. I awoke around 3a.m. to the sound of banging. The boys had fallen asleep in the living room. I padded, okay dragged, myself through the darkness of the hallway to see what ill might have befallen them to be so d*#@ loud at that hour of the morning. Tigger, my fair knight, had killed a giant hairy spider. Tigger does not possess an ounce of arachnophobia (I have enough for everyone), yet even he was shaken. He made a large circle with his hands when I asked how big it was. He said he could hear it moving on the bookshelves *shudder*. We've had wolf spiders in the house before, but it's been a long time. Me thinks this was a lone scout and when he doesn't return the other spiders will stay far away. Do NOT tell me otherwise, because I'm not listening. Said spider was now deceased, hence the banging, and all three of us stayed awake for at least another hour.

So yesterday at school Z and I had a bit of fun with out new dragons and our Medieval Europe book. Direct quote from Z, "RAWR! Fear me, I am cheap plastic toy."

"Darn these castle walls."

"Hey look, they're learning Latin too!"

"Why are you all screaming, I was just watching the service."

We must have laughed for twenty minutes and never really did recover back to academics. My PSA for today, sleep is important, otherwise you may end up doing great silly things. Then again, maybe the lack of sleep had nothing to do with us being silly, that kind of happens anyway.

(I am now wearing shoes in the house, yuck, shudder, I hate spiders)