I've decided...

Kinda.

I think this is more of an admission.

I am not Super Woman.

I know y'all are all relieved to know that ~ so now the rest of you can fight over her cape and crown ~ but not my tiara!

All kidding aside, I've decided I'll have to adopt "blog office hours".  As in, one day a week.

It seems that ever since we left for the Biltmore field trip and returned, I am on the hamster wheel non-stop!  And I really don't think the world is ready for a full-time nude adventure with my family!  (scary huh!?! I gotta get some laundry done around here..........).  I love the computer and I love blogging and reading everyone's blogs ~ but I really have to scale down to one day a week right now (...and in case you haven't noticed, I haven't been on here much....).  Hopefully, I will be organized and keep notes during the week and will have multiple posts during my new "office hours" as well as perusing around to visit all my friends.

Meanwhile, our homeschool studies are getting very studious and involved as well as fall baseball activities mixed in there, too.  Our weekend project list is growing as we are tilling and planting fall vegies along with some general home maintenance that the cooler weather is finally permitting us to take care of (our backporch is in desperate need of some Thompson's water sealer, we need to restretch some of the screened sections and so forth.....the list goes on).

I do have a couple of snake stories to share, too, one being no biggee - Alan shot our first rattlesnake of the season last Friday - a little 3 footer - it was way up the road from us.....but a rattlesnake is rattlesnake - regardless of size, it will put you in the hospital.  This next snake encounter is very serious:  On Saturday morning, when Alan and the boys went up to watch the trail riders leave out from our dairy neighbor's farm (there were over 400 horses and riders!), they were told about a man who had been bitten by a rattlesnake that he had unknowingly run over with his vehicle and upon parking and getting out of the car, the rattlesnake fell out of the wheel well and bit him on the ankle - all w/in seconds!!!!  He remains in the hospital and it is uncertain - if he survives - whether the doctors will be able to save his leg!  This time of year, all snakes are on the move trying to eat and fatten up before they go into hibernation at first frost.  Please be careful out there!  Make sure you wear good boots when walking in high grass and the woods, carry a walking stick along and pay attention to everything around you.

Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather ~  I'll catch up with y'all Sunday night!

Harriette

(~~waving~~ from the Deep South!)