As I sat on the sofa sipping my coffee with Lee Saturday morning, a mosquito took at least seven bites out of me before I slapped it on my cheek and killed the little pest. Our goal for the day was to get four more sections of the fence done, so it meets the property line at the foot of the yard. We went to Tonka Supply, our local seed and feed and picked up 16 timbers for the posts and rails. Just as the last one was loaded, we discovered a black widow perched on one in the back of the truck. There was a sack next to it and I figured it had her babies in it. Lee said the ride home would probably take care of her, and it did. The turn onto county road 33 caused the posts to roll around and she was flat by the time we made it to the house. I drug us out a couple of beers and Lee started lugging the wood from the pickup. We really don't work that hard around here, not like we used to. I mow the grass when Mindy begins to complain about going down her ramp into it. Lee pulls out the tractor and bushhogs what I don't get with the push mower, but only after it really starts looking shaggy. We are going green with the lawn. Mow less, plant more. Don't know where we're going with it, but we are happy with what we've done so far. Back to the fence, we got one section up and I carried the next two posts down to where we were working. As I was sinking the nails into the end, so they would already be started, something bit me on the stomach just beneath my waistband. A freaking tick! For pete's sake! Yeah it hurt, that's tender. Lee pulled it off me and killed it with his knife. I told Momma about it. SHe asked if it was big or little. It was one of the big ones, which Momma says are less dangerous. I didn't know the difference. I thought the little ones Ruby keeps bringing in on her legs were just small. Now I know those are deer ticks. At least she brings attention to them, by staring at her leg until we take it off of her. Sometimes she eats them, which causes her to foam at the mouth before she spits them out. I hate all these crawlies around me all the time. I used to have a problem with bees, but for the most part you can see them coming and they don't really bother you. I've only been stung once since I was a kid. A hornet got me when I was using the weedeater on the ditch. It hurt pretty bad, but I got over it. It left a scar though. I'd like to think Ruby keeps the snakes run off. I still haven't seen one around the house, other than the rat snake that was in the bathroom that time, and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm sure if I went looking, I'd find one. This is Alabama, I grew up here, you'd think I would have come to terms with some of this by now, but here I sit, thinking about washing my hair again and wondering if that tickle in my book is a tick I picked up in the garden this morning. Might as well spray down with some Off and head back out there in a few.
Oh yea! We had Indian food and went to see Iron Man Sunday. Got some sweet summer nail polish at Ulta, OPI Birthday Babe, some tea from World Market, and two new coop Xbox games from Game Stop. I'm not a really good teammate, but Lee is sweet enough to spend nights playing the multiplayer games with me.
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