Who's afraid of a little bug?  Annie kept asking me, "did it bite you?"  Moths don't bite.  I really do not like moths.  Well, the moths that come out in the spring, we call them millers.  This year it was a plague of moths.  I tell you they will dive at you and pester you on purpose.  Seems like they do anyway.  But this guy is special.  He's is really big and has cool stripes, so that makes him special.  He's not ordinary.  I don't have cool stripes and I guess there is really nothing out of the ordinary about me, except I am left handed and that is pretty special.  But, I learned a long time ago that as long a Jesus thinks I am special then I am good.

Day 39.  Get a camera out and everybody becomes a model, or a ham.  Stacy has been very camera shy until recently.  I think that she realized she was the only one in the family that I haven't taken a picture of, and she got jealous.  So she lets me take her picture now.  Of course I am kidding.  Stacy supports me in whatever I am doing and she thinks that this blog is a good thing, so, she does whatever she can to help me out.  She doesn't even fuss when I take her picture.  In a few days we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, and we are still very much in love.  I am so blessed to have her.  I will most likely be blogging about this again, especially since Stacy reads my blog. (I can always use the brownie points.)

I made cookies this week.  Stacy wants to send Matthew a care package with snickerdoodles in it.  So, that's what I made.  The problem is, I love these cookies.  I did manage to save enough to send,but, the other kids are disappointed because they only got a few.  I guess I ate more than I realized.  Maybe I will have to make more.  

 I know that there are nice sunsets anywhere you go, but I think some of the  most beautiful are right here in the Texas Panhandle.  The sunrises can be pretty spectacular, too.  There are few big buildings to block the view so the sky is wide open.  I like that.  I especially like being able to watch lightning as storms move off to the east behind our house.   Today I drove right up to one of these wind chargers.  They are so huge.  Man has accomplished so much.  But, they still can't make a sunset.


Day 36.  This is my main mode of transportation.  What great times I have had in this little jeep.  Originally it belonged to Stacy's granddad.  The first year he had it he let us take it on vacation.  That was in 1996.  We took it to Colorado and up Pikes Peak, and stayed in Colorado Springs.  That vacation we saw dinosaur foot prints, walked down into a volcano crater, and hunted for fossils.  Of course that many years ago we only had Matthew.  He and a cousin, Jonathan, were great campers.  I could go on and on with all the things I remember about that trip, but the best thing was, driving up pikes peak.  We were halfway up the mountain when Jonathan says, looking out his window,  "has anybody ever fallen off this road?"  He was getting a little nervous that we might be the first.  It is a long way down the side of that mountain.  Anyway, the little jeep has been in the family all this time.  A few years ago it became my turn, and I love it.  It's not fancy, and it needs tires, but it never lets me down. 

Had some fun tonight messing with the pic.  I tried a green background and a pink one, but decided on the blue.  No magic really, I just tweaked the tint and saturation.  I think it makes the flower stand out more.  It makes me think of the movie  "Aladdin" when Jafar says "things aren't always as they seem".  Seems like everything these days is enhanced some how.  More vibrant colors, added vitamins, cosmetic surgery, so much tweaking.  I wish I could tweak my bank account.  About all I do is get a haircut once in a while.  

Day 34.   I heard one time that you are never more than three feet away from a spider.  Indoors or out, there is a spider watching you.  That really creeps me out.  I know that spiders are necessary and they have a job to do.  I would rather live with a few spiders than any mosquitoes or flies.  However, I still don't like them.  Every little brown spider looks like a brown recluse to me.  But that doesn't stop me from getting a close look.  They creep me out and fascinate me at the same time.  So I will leave them alone as long as they leave me alone, but if one gets too close I have no problem squishing it.  One less spider will not upset the balance of the universe.