Wednesday Hodgepodge 20 July 2016

1.     Pokemon Go...your thoughts? Are you playing?  Do you even know what it is?
I have vaguely heard of it. Actually, I heard about it from my 77-year-old mother.  I don’t intend to play it.  Now, if they were to give us a trillion dollars or something for playing it, maybe I would play it.

Kissy in her new hat!

2. What was something you collected as a child? Do you still have that collection?  If you're a parent what's something your own children collected? Have you ever camped out, stood in a crazy long queue, or paid a ridiculous sum for a 'collectible'?

I really did not collect anything as a child.  My mother and my sister both collected dolls and still do.  From time to time, if I find a cool doll in a thrift store I will spend $10-15 for it.  That is how we got Kissy. 

3. "Collect moments, not things"...tell us about a moment you've added to your collection this summer.

Our lives here are pretty much same-o same-o.  The only really extraordinary thing that happened this summer technically happened in spring. That is when I had the three strokes. Other than that, our lives are pretty much like the movie Groundhog Day.  Same-o thing happens over and over.

4.  What's something collecting dust in your home right now? Any plans to do something about it?

Our treadmill and Melman.  I used to walk about four miles per day on the treadmill.  Then, I had to have my great toe amputated.  I have not been on the treadmill since.  Melman is the power tower.  That is a place for doing pullups.  I weigh too much now to use it.

5. A favorite song relating to time?

I know it sounds weird, but for each of our children I have made up a song based upon a song from our past.  The song that goes "Oh what a night, late December back in '63.  What a very special time for me" became the song for our oldest daughter.  "Oh, what a night. Mid December back in '90, what a very special time for me. Little Laynie, what a night."

6. What's been your most frightening or your most interesting encounter with wildlife?

Suzanne took this picture from about 1 foot away.

When we first moved to Gulf Coast Texas, there were snakes everywhere.  One night, we were walking through our carport.  My foot caught on the handle of a plastic bag.  That bag had fence parts in it. As that bag scraped across the concrete, it make the sound that I thought was a snake hissing.  I jumped sideways over the riding lawnmower.

Somewhere in this blasted house is a more than 4 foot long chicken snake.  We have named him Sir Hiss.  He is a beautiful snake.  He is not venomous.  He scared Xerxes when he was so sick.  I promised Xerxes I would kill Sir Hiss.  Sir Hiss and I have fought countless battles, usually in the dining room.  He has to die.

7.  On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong set his foot down on the moon. If you could travel to the moon would you go? Why or why not?

If God had intended for me to go to the moon, He would have put me on the moon. I have no intention of leaving the ground. Not in a rocket, not in a plane.  I have no intention of flying anywhere.  However, God has a sense of humor.  I have learned to never say never.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

It has been an interesting week.  My friend Eric, who owns Eric’s Landscaping, and his team of landscapers came and trimmed back the trees away from the house.  It is hurricane season and the very last thing we want is for a high wind to blow a tree through the roof.

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Spreading Adder

When my mother was a little girl one of her tasks was to look after her brother. He was considerably younger than her and so it sometimes fell to her to take care of him.

One day she was walking back to her house and her brother, Glenn, was following along behind her. She felt something squish under her feet and she turned around to see what it was. She had stepped on a snake. This snake was called a spreading adder or spread adder. It is also called a hog nose snake.

It seems that this snake is quite an actor. It is mildly venomous but rarely strikes at humans. It will pretend to strike with a closed mouth.

Well, this snake spreads out and from my mother’s perspective has raised up like a cobra. She runs around the snake and grabs her brother and runs to the house.