The big story from today is the BLACK WIDOW in my garden. The kids and I went to the new house to work in the garden this afternoon. It was actually kind of nice out, for a change. I was pulling weeds and the kids were looking for ripe veggies to pick. We were all in the same area, when Angel said "look at that spider!" It was only a couple inches from my hand - right where I was weeding. It looked a little more brown than black, though, so I thought it was just a garden spider of some sort (I guess it was dirty). Damian was right next to me, both of us leaning over to see it and as it crawled into a hole in the ground, for just a second, we caught a glimpse of red on it's underside! Damian yelled "it's a black widow!" Me: "are you sure?" D: "it has red on it - look out it's coming towards you!" By this time I was standing up straight, and looking around for something to smash it with, so I hadn't seen it come out of it's hole. Unfortunately, I was wearing flimsy flip flops, and the ground was muddy from watering, so I couldn't just step on it. Angel came to the rescue -handing me her plastic yellow hoe, and I whacked it a few times. Phew! Damian made sure to add to our prayer at dinner a "thank you" to God that no one got bit by the black widow today. :)
This weekend I'll be out of town. We'll be having a big birthday party for all the summer birthdays in the family at my mom's. I'm looking forward to it! Here are some pics - to catch up on what I couldn't post before. Here's one layout I did a couple weeks ago, and some pics we took w/ an underwater camera. It was so much fun!
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