Thursday, August 28, 2008

Frogs in the pool

Anyone that knows me, knows I like frogs.  Last night I could hear one croaking in the yard.  Not that uncommon here.  In fact, I have a toad that sits on the front porch every night.  His name is Virgil.

Anyway, the croaking came from the general direction of the pool, but certainly not in the pool, right?  There are chemicals in there......

Uhh, meet our guest.



The water is not green as it appears to be in these pictures.  Obviously I need to add more chlorine, but it is fairly clean.




I had planned to take the pool down once school started anyway.  Now that critters have taken over, I have a little more motivation to get it done.

He is a pretty big frog too.  And you have to admit he is kind of cute.


And, oh look, he has a little friend......  Oh goody. 





Uh oh... Big frog and little frog were playing leap frog.




Yeah, the pool is definitely coming down tomorrow!!!!  

(By the way, Maren took these pictures.  Quite the little wildlife photographer, wouldn't you say?)

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Monday, August 25, 2008

B2S


Maren's first day back to school.  
She's been quite a trooper.   This will be her third time being the "new girl".  But one thing about being an Army brat, she's certainly not the only new one in her class.

Hard to believe she's so grown up.  I got to walk her to the school this morning, but she asked me not to wait with her until it was time to go in.  Yeah, how embarrassing would that be?!  :)  We only live a block from the school so tomorrow she said she'd walk by herself.   Makes me a little sad.  


Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Vinyl Projects

Here are some of the vinyl projects I have done.


For Maren's room:


I love the butterflies









Very Maren








Well, it's in our house, but there are days I wonder.... lol







This is one I did for my neighbor. I think it turned out very pretty.






Let me know what you think.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Oh me, oh ouch!

One more reason to not like Texas...
I was outside last night visiting with my neighbor.  
This morning I noticed I had a "rash" all over both arms spreading to my back.  As the day went on it got worse and starting itching like crazy.
I've concluded it is chigger bites.  Maren and I started counting on one army, but lost count quickly.  I figure there is close to 300 bites. 
Like I said, I have them all over both arms, on my back and neck, and even a few on my legs (not to mention my backside).  
Yes, it itches as bad as it looks.....