4:45 p.m. Michael finds a rattlesnake in the yard, and kills it.
6:25 p.m. Michael runs over a gopher snake in the yard.
We may have to move.
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- I'm Denise Jones~ Michael's wife, Noah, Emilie, and Josie's mommy. Jesus knows me this I love. Praise is who I am, praise is what I do. I love words: written, spoken, sung, lived. I have a love/hate relationship with homeschooling. I value time spent with a good friend. I go nowhere without my lipstick!
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Everybody has to change or they expire. Everybody has to leave, leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons. I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago. Only a good story has a character different at the end than it was in the beginning.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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C.S. Lewis
Everybody has to change or they expire. Everybody has to leave, leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons. I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago. Only a good story has a character different at the end than it was in the beginning.
Through Painted Deserts
Donald Miller
"Our whole life was only given to us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country."
Lancelot Andrews
In my life, God is always changing the way I think of Him. I am not saying God Himself is changing, or that my theology is open and I blur the lines on truth; I am only saying I think I know who He is, then I figure out I don't know very much at all.
Searching For God Knows What
Donald Miller
A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Denise, you're awesome! Seriously..making me laugh. I too would have freaked out about the spider, but I had to laugh when you said a mouse almost killed you. Like I said, you're awesome & I love reading your blog!
ReplyDeleteAre you living in an episode of Wild Kingdom? I've never heard of so many critters in one household's life! I'd definitely move!
ReplyDeleteSnakes... why did it have to be snakes?? I cringe at the thought!! You can't trust a creature that slithers! Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteI am assuming by your precise post that the rattlesnake was killed and the gopher snake wasn't?
ReplyDeleteThat's a good thing..Gopher snakes (aka Bull Snakes) do a tremendous job of eating rats and mice and all sorts of little vermin.
Unfotunately, they are big and snakey and for the Denise Jones that I know, are probably a little scary.
We need a photo of the snake!!
My boys just found a dead rat in our backyard. I'd rather have a dead rat...sorry.
ReplyDeleteokay I grew up in the desert. I saw - on our property - rattlesnakes, mountain lions, bob cats, bears and lots and lots of scorpions (and those were inside the house)...I don't know how I escaped my parents house alive.
ReplyDeletehahahaha!!
Now that I have my own place, I pay big money for an exterminator to come regularly - I even have a spray system installed inside the walls of my house. I've been there over a year and haven't once seen a spider inside!
There would be no question in my mind - I would have already put the for sale sign in the yard and rented an apartment.
ReplyDeleteYour all so funny! i forgot to mention there was a bobcat here yesterday as well. uh huh, just trying to get a bit more sympathy :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat in the world? Is this normal?
ReplyDeleteick about the rattlesnake. any other snake would be fine, i think.
ReplyDeletewe found black widows awhile back in the yard...ex.term.in.a.tor!
My first stop by...
ReplyDeleteThis post made me laugh. Not the rattlesnake part but the part where you said that you may have to move. We live in rattlesnake country and just yesterday I was walking with my girlfriend (our morning routine) and we saw a dead king snake in the road.
That was it! She pretty much had her kitchen, master bedroom and garage all packed up.
Blessings, Joanne