Last week we opened the windows for the first time during the night and were awakened at 1:30am by our friendly neighborhood skunk posse. This is the 4th or 5th time we have been skunked during the night. Luckily our dog did not get it this time.
Today I went Visiting Teaching to a neighbor across the street. I rang the doorbell and then heard a hissing noise. I looked down and there was a snake about 2 feet from me all coiled up and hissing at me! I screamed and ran back down the sidewalk as my neighbor opened the door. I told there was a snake and she promptly called her husband to come and take care of it. Then she told me to hurry in to which I declined and told her I would just wait until the snake was gone. Then she promptly shut the door. I waited for her husband to come around with a shovel and watched from almost the middle of the road as he inched the shovel toward the snake and the snake struck at him. He then decided that the snake had to go bye bye if he was going to get violent. I thought he needed to go bye bye regardless. I had the willies all day long. This is seriously what the snake looked like and this is a picture of a baby rattler. I don't know for sure it was a rattler because I did not see the rattlers but AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH anyway!
No, this is not snow. It is cotton off the cottonwood trees that bloom every spring and fall around here. I vacuumed this rug this morning about 9:15 and this picture is at about 3:30. The garage door is always kept shut after we pull in but this stuff inevitably gets in. It is in the air and all over the garage floor. When the wind is blowing it looks like snow blowing around. I think I am allergic to it or whatever else is blooming out there. Cayden is allergic to something blooming right now too. He goes to bed and wakes up with a stuffy nose. He says that he is sick and can't go to school. Luckily there is Zyrtec for him and Claritin for me.
And last but not least are these lovely little bugs that congregate in and around my kitchen sink and in and around my bathroom window and big tub. The bug man only came last week and I bought bug spray yesterday and sprayed around the windows of both the kitchen and my bathroom inside and out. I vacuum the windowsills, tub, sink and surrounding area atleast twice a day because I can't stand their little bodies dead or otherwise all over the place. I really do love the green of spring and all the flowers that are blooming but along with the good comes the bad and these are definitely the bad.
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