What I feel....

“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:

This is me d*** it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.

When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”

--Stacey Charter

I really don't want to get into the whole ordeal, but I will say a little.

Lately (past year) I have been an emotional roller coaster. Up, down, around, up, down and around. It is all emotional and no I am NOT Bipolar. To be honest I don't like it. I don't like roller coasters anyway, so go figure. I don't like being all happy for awhile and then something happen and I am down for a few days. It is crappy! I am a happy, free will, go with the flow type of person. I would say very laid back. It has fit me for the past 30 years and I don't see why it should change.
I love the quote above and have always been the type of person to say..."if you don't like me, sorry...this is who God made me." I don't try to please anyone but God, and that is a daily struggle.

The last part of the quote...."When you are strong...." really doesn't concern me. I love myself and have accepted that this is who I am. The part of the quote that concerns me is the top part of it.

Introducing...Ace

Ace is our neighbors cat. I think, he isn't ours so we really don't know who he belongs to, but anyway he stays around our house some.

When I go out to water our Mums he stays with me. He follows me as I water them. When I go inside to get more water he will sit at the front door and meow. I really miss having a cat, but not the allergies they cause.

Chris said it would be nice to have a cat around the house, to keep mice out. As long as it would stay off the cars. Guess what I found this morning....cat prints on the car!

Stinkhorn Mushrooms

Well our snake eggs are not snake eggs. They are Stinkhorn mushrooms. I wrote about them here.

Friday evening when I got home I saw this weird thing sticking out of the mulch bed, so in my curious nature, I go over to check it out. I get a stick and start poking around and it moves!! So I  freak out and call my mom, because Chris is at work at this time. I go and get a hoe and start moving these white things, stilling thinking they are snake eggs. I found 22. At this point I was saying, "Oh my gosh mom there are 22 of them." She tells me to get in the house and call Chris and let him know. Now I am worried we have an infestation of snakes.
I told her that I was going to check these things out online and see what snake eggs really look like. I get online and start looking, they look nothing like snake eggs. So I start reading some forums and people were saying they had the same things in their yards and they were calling them Stinkhorn Mushrooms. They have an awful smell! According to what I read, the black part contains spores and that is what causes the horrible smell. Flies can carry the spores and multiply the mushrooms. That is just great!
I sent Chris a message and told him what I found. We looked up how to remove them and are in the process of getting rid of them. We plan on removing the mulch and replacing it with pea gravel.

Sunday morning I looked out to see about them and there were four more. Three were coming out of the mulch and one was coming out of its shell. So I get a shovel and fill a Walmart bag full of them.

Here is a picture of what they look like once they have come out of their shells.

He Loves The Sun

Bear loves to sleep in the sun. The last couple of days have been around 70 degrees outside and he loves it.
I sent this picture to Chris while he was at work. Of course Bear has to have his rope close by. If you can't see it, it is at his back end.

One more picture I want to share is a picture of a snake's egg. Most of them had string like things attached to them. Not sure what they are???? We had a rat snake to lay 12 or so eggs in our front mulch bed. Chris killed the snake a few days before we found them.