i took my mom home on monday and came back today. so i got to do a little deer hunting. first time i have ever hunted in my flip-flops, ha (lack of planning there). “you know you’re from Austin if you ‘xxx’ in your flip-flops”. although my dad did try to fight a fire with them on one time, HA. The fire was coming up the hill in front of the house, and the pressure pump was out, so as we say, he was out there fighting a fire in his flip-flops and a drip hose, ha.
i also dug through my grandparents old house to get some of my paintings out. (one of them i won state with in 4-H – whee). the house had brown recluses all over! much more than the last time i was over there. i found one behind each painting i picked up, and on the floor, and the wall, etc. so i exercised extermination-by-shoe, till i just gave up and moved on. the back porch was infested by frogs, which was much better. they were little tree frogs, very cute. although the first one that launched across the room scared the crap out of me, looked like a flying snake, ha.
then, to top off the spider fiesta, i found a hobo spider once i got home! so i crawled around and caught it to put in my specimen collection. scissor fangs and necrotic venom, not fun.
