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| The last of my zinnias |
Joe knocked on our kitchen door Tuesday evening.
“So what’s it doing?” were the first words out of his mouth. Tim told
him he thought the system was clogged.
“Yeah that happens every now and then I have a snake but someone is
borrowing it and I need to get it back from him they designed the sewer system
badly when they were building the place as soon as I get the snake back I’ll
take a look at it I don’t even need to come inside since I can access it from
the roof.”
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| Joe's Snake - now wound and still waiting for him |
Then Joe drove off.
On Thursday morning Joe finally came with his snake. He made some
terrible noises on our roof and then left. I called Virginia to let her know
that Joe had come.
On Thursday evening the system backed up again. We looked out the back
window and saw that Joe’s ladder was still propped up on our roof and his
snake was on the ground in our backyard.
We were still pondering this mystery on Friday morning, when it
occurred to us that something dark and sinister could have happened to Joe.
It could have been THE BLOB! He got sucked into our sewer and all that was left
was his ladder and snake!
Although Tim was ready to call Roto-Rooter at this point, we called
Virginia on Monday to see if she knew what had happened to Joe. She didn’t,
but she called him again.
After being out of town for a little holiday we arrived home Tuesday to
find Joe’s ladder still propped up on the roof, but the snake had
disappeared. Aha! Perhaps progress has been made!
Wednesday I looked out our living room window to see a hole dug in the
yard right in front of my flower bed. This is not unusual because we have many
rodents digging holes all around and in my flower beds. In fact, we have
sixteen rodent skeletons in our woods to prove that we don’t like rodents doing
nasty things to my flowers (although I don’t mind what they do to my flowers
nearly as much as I mind what they did to my last three bird feeders).
Anyhow, we have a hole the size of a beach ball in front of my flower
bed, which was either dug by some beastly rodent or…Joe, who left his snake
in our front yard this time. We’re still not sure what happened to Joe.
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| Copperhead found on road |
Weather has been just gorgeous this month. Tim got me a bike and we've enjoy a couple of rides together. I've been keeping my eyes peeled for kingfishers, turtles, and mink. I haven't seen the mink since this summer, and it ran in front of us so quickly that I hardly had time to get a good look at it. We've also seen a vole and some snakes.
Here are some summer and fall photos from around our house.
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| Our across-the-way neighbors let us use their porch! |
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| Our Red Headed Woodpecker |
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| Swallowtail in my flowerbed |
Here are some photos from our weekend excursions to Chattanooga, TN and Jackson, MS:
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| At the Aquarium - my husband is fascinated by carnivorous plants |
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| Can you spot the critter? |
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| These wire fish remind me of Pop's wire bikes |
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| The view from Lookout Mountain |
This tree slice here was about three feet wide. We saw petrified trees that were originally eight feet wide. When we considered that 1) Petrification happened as a result of a worldwide flood and 2) These trees were about two thousand years old at the time of the flood, then we realized that we very well could have been looking at trees that were a direct result of God's command, "Let the earth sprout vegetation" (Genesis 1:11). Amazingly overwhelming.
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| Tim has a knack for finding these little guys |
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| This thing has a leg span as wide as my hand |
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