Round Up

8-1

My tubby Grimm, we just love this cat.  

A friend shared a FB post talking about how a messy desk is the sign of a creative mind.  I am a creative genius apparently.  

8-2

I was recently advised to let something go so I bought a mug to remind myself.  I love it. 

Snapchat is really fun to play with !!! I made an alien video for Baylor telling him how much I love him! 

My Eddy girl is still here and still doing well, for being 105 years old.  

8-3

I took a trip though the garden after work and found the insects super busy and beautiful. 

And I decided to join Tamela for Zumba class! 

It was not too bad. 

8-4

I finally made pickles with the cucumbers I bought at the farmer's market.  I do love them!  

8-5

I had to work from home today because I was off a half day and Baylor was not going to summer camp.  I was also packing for the camping trip when I went outside with a tub in my hands. Which meant I could not see where I was walking.  I stepped out on something and I knew it was not the hose laying in front of me.  I looked back to see a black snake on the door mat and then the sight of it going in the house.  UGH!! I have been in this house for 12 years and never even seen a garter snake in the yard. Now I have an a least four foot black snake in my living room!  Behind the carpet cleaner. Right across from my sleeping dog.  IN MY LIVING ROOM.  I went upstairs to see of the neighbors were home and had to grab Grimm on my way to the phone as he was moseying down to the living room.  I put him in the bathroom and shut the door, which he was not happy with.  I called the Brown's and asked if Mr Doug was a snake handler?  They both came over armed with a bucket with a lid, a grabber, a yardstick, a broom and a child's rake.  I had a bucket and grabber as well.  

Mandy wisely shut the door to the bedroom and Doug and I tried with our grabbers to get him but he kept just slithering through our grabber.  I am glad the door under the stairs was closed or we would have had to move had it slithered in there!   It certainly did not like us bugging it but never struck out at us.  I went under the school desk and back to the corner and then around the corner and under the closed bedroom door!!!  I nearly grabbed it out of desperation as it flatted under the door, It crept into the bathroom behind the toilet. I put the bucket on the other side of the tank and Doug encourage it to move into the bucket, which it did. We put the lid on before it could change its mind and walked to the creek bank to set it free.  So thankful for my amazing neighbors!!! (Baylor was in the basement the whole time and was upset he missed it.  I did not want him freaking out about a snake in the house) 

I harvested what was ready in the garden and packed it up to go along on vacation. 

Mom and Dad arrived a little after 1:00 and I was not ready so I had to throw everything together and get ready.  We stopped at Baker's for lunch and then headed to Caledonia State Park, about an hour from there.   

Where we played with Snapchat once we unpacked.