No Farming of Late

that's how it goes...farming in a very intense way..then a period of OTHER THINGS!here is my renaissance man

and I have been reminded...my renaissance sons as well (and a daughter in law!)

Ian - Jazz drummer extraordinaire and NPR announcer!Aaron - Whole Foods employee and stand-up comic(!)
and his rockin wife Kendall - nurse and awesome dog lover!

what an amazing family we have...Our daughter and son-in-law and fabulous grandchildren would be pictured as well, but they (sob) live too far away...

and the renovations continue!

It's Banana Spider Time

yes, this spider is as big as it looks...but that's just the female - the males are very tiny. I saw this one while looking out the bathroom window...they're quite frightening! but not very dangerous. I know only a couple of things about this spider, and none of my observations are scientific...They show up in the late summer or fall - their webs look like they are on LSD -psychotic in structure...and very very big. They will build webs from one tree to another so LOOK OUT if you're walking in the woods. You can't see the web very well, but all of a sudden, there's a giant spider right about face-level - yikes! Once, my mother was in the woods on a riding mower and ran smack into one - she leapt off the mower and the mower kept going - that was 'back in the day' when mowers would run with nobody sitting on them - they don't do that anymore.
I read somewhere that people use them as hurricane predictors - a week before a storm they'll pack up and leave (!) Don't know about that. But I still believe that once the pecan trees leaf out, there won't be another frost!

First Fishing Experience!

Little Sparrow came to visit with us (her Mimi and Papa) for a few days...she really wanted to catch a fish, although she was worried about the fact that they were also going to be dinner!

First she caught a small perch and gave it to Mousey Tongue, who was VERY appreciative....then she caught this enormous perch...she didn't really want to hold it for the picture...it kept slipping around, and she wasn't keen on grasping it...but Will convinced her to stand with it in her little hands for just long enough!