Here's a fall picture of our pond. The leaves are getting in full swing here, but there's still a couple of weeks til they peak. Usually around my birthday is when they're at their best providing there doesn't come a huge storm and blow all the leaves off.
Another random picture: G.E.R.A.R.D B.U.T.L.E.R. If you haven't seen him in "P.S. I love you", the movie, you don't know what you're missing. Love that Scottish accent. He actually plays an Irish man in the movie, but he is SOOOO dreamy. Love it!
Ok, whew, enough of that...
Love it! Love it!
Ok, here's the little mini-horses across the road from my parents house. They are so cute. I tried to get a close-up picture of them last fall cuz they had frost on their fuzzy coats, but they kept turning & looking at me and wouldn't be still. I wanted it back-lit so the frost would stand out. This was the best one I got. I'll try again maybe...Since we just passed Halloween and the Mexican holidays Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, thought I'd show you a couple of shrines to the dead loves ones that I took at Mi Tierra Mexican Restaurante (mi restaurante favorito de todo el mundo!) in San Antonio a couple of years ago. To the Mexican culture the way I understand, death is a part of life, and on November 1 & 2, they honor their beloved dead relatives by creating shrines to them in the cemeteries and elsewhere. They shower them with decorations, flowers, music, photographs and favorite foods. Sometimes they will stay at the gravesite and wait for their spirits to come and it is comforting to them, not scarey. The Mexican bakeries are full of the sugar skeletons and skulls and all kinds of goodies which they add to their shrines, too. Anyway, here's a couple of shots to honor some departed souls in San Antone.
And THAT, my friends is about all I can think of this day and may you find something of a tiny bit of interest here just to prove that I am, in fact, still alive and kicking (struggling), and have not gone MIA in bloglandia.
I've been quite busy with work, kids, getting ready for company, and a church fellowship at the farm, and gophers. I"m trying desperately to git rid of some mounds before the fellowship, but I may be fightin' a losin' battle. You don't want to see a photo of one of the dead gophers that I have.
I think I'm going to start a "GOPHER COUNTER" on my sidebar and keep count. I think, to date, it's 8 or 9, but I really need a counter so I can keep up - I like statistics (not really). Monday I caught 2, yesterday I caught one. If you need any help learning how to catch gophers, find their burrows, set the traps, and how to dispose of said varmint if not already dead, I'm thinking of having an online tutorial called "Gettin' Gophers 101" and will have it on my side-bar for you to click and download for $19.95 and that comes with a $5.95 certified galvanized homogenized plagiarized gopher trap that's guaranteed to catch gophers for you or double your money back (if returned within 10 days of purchase). Think it'll sell?
PETA will probably come after me...
