Mary and Reese

Veronica

Friday we all went and had our eyes checked. Turns out Chris and I both need glasses. I kind of knew because I couldn't see to read. My arm kept getting farther and farther away when I was reading. In a way I was hoping it was caused by a piece of dirt I had got in my eye last year. That way I wouldn't have to admit to old age. But then the doctor said "Generally at around 42 everyone needs glasses." But I'm not 42 yet.

That old age has been just creeping up on me. Pretty soon they'll be talking about which old folk home to put me in. This year Veronica will turn 13 and that makes her officially a teenager. And that's not the worst, Erica is going to be 21 on her next birthday. Oh, the tragedy. It's all down hill from here. Memory loss, aches, pains, hearing aid. I'm almost old.

Turtle

A Turtle

I let Reese out this morning to do his morning business and he started barking like crazy. I went out to check on him and he had found this unusual turtle. It's a soft shell or trionychine. They eat them in Asia. It crawled out of the pond and went into the front yard and crossed the street. So I guess it's a good thing we don't have a fence or he wouldn't have been able to leave our yard. It had a snorkel nose and every so often would stop and put it's head way up in the air and look around like a periscope.

Last night just before it started to pour rain I got a picture of this Blue Heron. It's not that good of a picture I need a better camera.

We are always seeing something new come out of our little lake. Right now there is a flock of black birds that roost on the cat tails at night. And we are always seeing a flock of white Ibis I think they live in there too. And the frogs are so loud you can hear them in the house with all the windows closed. It's a frog pond.

We are wet.

Grape tomatoes.

It's been raining for a week straight although every where is flooding we are pretty high and dry in our location, just water logged. The good thing is that the grass is looking better than ever but now Chris will have to mow. The water in the pond/lake is up to the cattails now.

I picked some of the grape tomatoes that are growing in the front yard and they were split. Mom said it was from too much water. The other vegetables are doing just fine. Can't wait to get some of those yellow squash.

Be sure you registered your car.

OK. So I guess I'm not up to posting a blog everyday. But that should just keep people on their toes to keep checking back in on us.

What has happened?

Well, we joined all the rest of the Americans that have bought a gun recently. Not so much as we think Obama is going to make it illegal but mainly because with things looking so grim with the economy and drug users and you just never know. So we got one. Now we can go hunting. Or shoot that guy trying to break into the house. (As long as he is really slow because we got a gun lock and are keeping it unloaded.) But if it's us or them we will win cause I've got a machete to hold them off with while I unlock and load the thing.

So, with all the people buying guns and I guess 22's the bullets are really hard to find. So we went to Wal-mart. Sold out. So we went to the local gun store. Sold out. We went to K-mart. They don't do gun's. (Liberals.) So we tried a pawn shop. Bingo, they had bullets galore. So we bought 200. We shoved them in the glove box of the truck and headed for the woods. To shoot the bullets.

Sure enough blue and red lights in the rear view. F.H.P. All kind of stuff went through our heads. We weren't speeding. Did Chris run another red light? He just got popped in Orlando by the light camera. They had a close up picture of him running the red light. No, we were sure we did nothing wrong.

Well, the officer comes to the window. "Licence and registration." He's all business. I pop open the glove box. and Oh yeah we had just bought a butt load of bullets. Luckily the police officer wasn't concerned about it. So, Chris asked "Why are you stopping us?" The police officer says "Your tag says 12-08" Yep, it was at that moment we realized we had totally forgot to renew our car tag. I guess with the move and everything it just slipped our mind. Luckily we got stopped or we might have been riding around for 6 months and then the fine would have been bigger. We've been all over Florida with these expired tags. And even had a close up picture taken of the truck tags and no one noticed. I was sure when that cop followed me down the road the other day he was typing my tag number into his computer. You'd have thought he would have noticed. Maybe he was just going down the road.

Anyway that's what's been happening.