I rushed out the front door late last night, in a hurry on my mission as Arthur’s airport chauffeur. Nestled snugly in my purse, an ice cold can of cherry coke for my sure to be parched spouse; it has become tradition that I bring a can of what he calls the ‘life giving liquid’. Yuck. But, each to his own.

Sprinting for the truck, something stopped me, forcibly. A web. And even though I know I’m safe, sitting here in the house, many hours later… my stomach cramped up a bit when I typed ‘web’. I have an unnatural fear of everything spider, even more crippling than my utter revulsion of ‘palmetto bugs’, those huge roaches that fly at you. As Barney Fife once said about bats: they fly into your hair, lay eggs and you go crazy. I know it’s not true, but still.

So as soon as I hit what must have been a gigantic web built by mutant spiders bent on my annihilation, I freaked out and staggered back. It wouldn’t let me fall, but I backpedaled my butt out of there as soon as possible, dropped everything, including my purse with the coke and immediately commenced the spider dance, during which time Arthur called. I have no idea what he said and I’m sure he couldn’t have understood my garbled screaming.

Such was my distress that I had to go back inside, brush my hair and change my clothes! Now that’s neurotic… but it was freaky.

So this weekend I’m going to HD and pick up some Cutter Backyard and if that doesn’t work I’ll call one of the local bug franchises. They may have been here first, but I’ve got chemicals on my side. And I will win.

I took these pictures of a juvenile mockingbird after a rain today. He was trying to dry his half down, half feathered body off and he looked for all the world like he was drunk.

It’s difficult to tell, what with all the greenery, but most of the fronds have already fallen down to its side and many more broke at the top, about 12″ out, and are hanging. The top of the tree is gaping open, like it’s been bored by a huge screwdriver.

Go Wordless!

I’ve been primarily using Principal Secret’s Reclaim line, and really love it, especially the night cream and eye serum… but it was time for an avocado mask. It’s a cheap freeman product, but I still like it.

Thankfully my recent weight gain doesn’t show too much in my face. It does, as my face is usually very angular and the added padding sort of softens it… but I’m seriously thinking about diet pills. Really. At this point, anything that helps will be welcome.
Maybe someone with knowledge of sewing could stitch my lips together?