Anaconda on My Front Porch

I cannot believe that I am blogging about a S N A K E. I came home from grocery shopping and unloaded groceries from the car, and passed by it twice, and on the third pass, I saw it, and about dropped all of the groceries. GROSS! I called Vernon who was not home at the time and told him there was a snake on the front porch. I took this picure blindly by reaching around the corner with my right hand and holding the door open with my left hand. The second time I tried to spy on him, he got startled and jumped, and I FREAKED. When Vernon got home, I showed him through the glass door where it was and told him to get rid of it - Kill it. He said it is "just a grass snake", and I said "IT'S A SNAKE", need I say more. He went to grab it, and it took off through a small hole beside the front door, great. It's not enough that I have to watch for snakes at work, but not I have to watch out for them at home. Of course I haven't seem it again, thank God, but not so sure that I won't come into the foyer some day, and be a "All Grown Up Snake" laying there. Then we will have to sell the house, of course, given I live through it.

Back Yard Campout

Back on October 4th we were registered to attend the Great Garland Camp Out, which was a overnight camp out in Audubon Park here in Garland. We are so excited as Mason was going to go with us, but due to low enrollment, it was cancelled at the last minute. Try explaining that to a 6 year old, so we did the next best thing, we had a camp out in the back yard. Vernon and Mason pitched the tent in the back yard, we borrowed an air mattress from some dear friends, and had plenty of blankets in the tent just off the back porch. We built a fire in the fire pit, roasted hot dogs on the "campfire" and roasted marshmallows to make smores. Mason loves smores, and had the best time that weekend.

It got down into the upper 50's that night, and got quite cold after the fire went out. Mason put his fleece on sometime during the night, and was very cold when we got up - (as soon as the birds woke up), when I asked him why he didn't wake me up when he got cold. his response was "I just wanted to stay in the tent Nana."

He had the best time, and so did we. We will most assuredly be making that a tradition.