More Wildlife

My sister had a mama opossum build a nest in her garden shed and now the babies play in the yard. Susan named one of them Petey and fed him a snack every night. She'd put a little food out and he'd come along and eat it. V cute. One eve around dusk, Susan went into the garage from gardening and found Petey snacking IN the bag of cat food that she keeps in the garage.

Prom Night

Seth, Lauren & Seth's date.





Vanille & Kyle









Brooke
&
Robert











Gui & his date











Maykon & Brittany








Josh & his girls,
Kristina & Melinda

A SNAKE IN THE HOUSE

Imagine going to the back of the house to get the newspaper and seeing this curled around the table.

Hmmm, what do we do? We need a boy. Daryl was gone playing music and Owen is only 4. I was going to start calling people when I saw the high school boy next door enter his house. I called him and got his mother. She ended up being the brave snake fighter. They both came over with trash barrel, shovel and hoe in hand.

This guy was not going to go easily. He backed into the corner of a book case where he rattled and spat at us. Just get in the trash can! He didn't want to. Collin had an idea, "I can shoot him with a pellet gun." He went home, got his gun, came back and aimed for the snake's head. He missed the head but shot the snake in what I would call his neck. You can see the discoloration a few inches below his head where he'd been bleeding. The injury slowed the snake down quite a bit so Trisha was able to scoop him into the trash barrel. Whew! Trisha and Collin drove the snake out into the country where he could recover or die.

My final question: What was a snake this size

doing in my house in downtown Green Acres?

Dancing the Hodown

I had the best time with these girls, teaching them to blog. We should have spent more time perfecting this dance routine and the filming of it, but we were running out of time and I wantedto show them how to post a video before they had to go home.

More Beanie Babies

Just when we thought we'd packed our last Beanie Baby, Grady brought in three more bags to be sent to his dad, JB, in Iraq. This brings our total up to 1083 with promises of even more. The generosity of people has been awe inspiring. To date, we have sent 22 boxes of Beanie Babies to Iraq, postage paid totally with donations. The remainder of our service learning grant will pay for the rest.

Cheryl's Boys

My friend Cheryl in Oregon sent me this picture.
It is so charming and endearing that I just had to post it
so that others could enjoy it too.

More Beanie Babies

A student, Kirsty, created this ship for our Beanie Babies to pose in. We'd like to wave "Bon Voyage" to them when we raise enough money for their travel expenses to Iraq.




Another student, Noah, drew an ark so the Beanie Babies could gather around in pairs as they prepare to depart two by two.