Huntsville TX Real Estate, Lake Conroe Real Estate with Mari Montgomery

Yes, this is all about critters. If you do not like critters, you may want to turn the channel or look away.

Today as my husband was putting on his tennis shoes to begin to mow the lawn, a strange thing happened. Well, it's in the title....there's a frog in my shoe! ( If you are wondering, he keeps them on the back porch.)

But wait, there have been some critters in the house lately. Have I told you about the copperhead in the recliner? No, well that was a good one.

A couple of weeks ago in the middle of the night, my husband went intot he kitchen to get a glass of water. How do I know about this when I was supposed to be asleep? You got it, I take care of the snakes. Didn't apply for that job. So out I stumble. The snake is in the kitchen, but got scared and, that's where the recliner part comes in. Whose recliner? Of course, mine.

5 steps to snake killin'

step one--hiking boots--that's right with a night shirt

step two--yardstick

step three--tupperware

step four--scissors???

( Now make belive the red ribbon is the snake)

step five--ziploc bag

Ready? Okay:

----hiking boots protect the feet,

----yardstick knocks out the snake from the recliner,

----tupperware upsidedown traps the snake when flung across the den--

----and the scissors?? To cut off the head of course.

I don't like snakes.

Okay...here's a recipe for the best pintos ever and EASY.

dried pintos--boil for about 5 minutes, then rinse

-place in crock pot on high.

add the following

-fill water in the crock pot a couple inches over the beans.

-salt pork (a good hunk---tee-hee about 3 inch by 1 inch chunk)

-1 chopped onion

-3 TB "pinto bean seasoning"-"Fiesta Brand" at Wal-Mart

-3 TB cider vinegar

-2 sliced jalapenos (seeds, ribs and all)

-pinch of salt at the end of cooking.

-cook on high for 6-8 hours

AWESOME! enjoy

Wow, a Wii

It's so cool. We just played baseball. I must be the last person on the planet to get a WiiSport. It is amazing to me how sensitive the sensor is. I know I am not a real baseball player, nor do I play one on TV, but it seems that there is a real sense of timing involved to hit the ball straight, etc.

My husband was just bowling. That was fun---for me. The little Wii people have little ball hands,

This may be helpful for the Wii enthusiasts out there. I bought those kind of connect together soft floor pieces (the kind people put in nurseries and playrooms) and made it slightly smaller than the area rug in front of our TV and put the rug back over it. It creates a really nice soft and shock absorbing material. I found them at Sam's Club for about 15 bucks.

My overall impression of the Wii is great. I like the hula hoop on the Wii-Fit. My brother calls it a "Wii-Fat." He's pretty funny--and a cop, go figure.

Have a great rest of the Wii--kend!

The spool is emptying, the film rolls toward the final credits to this Labor Day weekend.

How relaxing. It seems not much of anyone is working this weekend, or maybe that feeling is a simple reflection of my choices this weekend.

Feels good--feels great. Sleep is so not overrated. How appropriate, the title of the lovely music playing right now in my living room is titled, "A Moment's Peace." So very cool.

I am looking forward to a great and exciting week. And also, more days like today, which included strenuous activities like sitting on the porch watching the birds, and watching the thirsty grass slurp up every drop of the sprinkler water.

Peaceful is good.

Have we become too informal?

In an age where most restaurants welcome shorts and flipflops, the absence of formal living areas in homes (that is my token real estate reference), no more hats if they are not either cowboy hats (which are Texas Formal), or backwards baseball caps, ladies without gloves and the younger generation seeing such as "martian-like" behavior as they seem "far-out" social standards

Ozzie and Harriet-hey, I'm old and and I barely remember them, and the "The Beave," with the gentle yet offensively didactic moral lessons. Let's face it, there was no cussing on shows or the mention of the word "sex" or even use of the word "tampon" in a commercial about "feminine protection." (I know what you're saying, where are the products for "male protection" during the time that "female protection" is needed?)

What about that pendulum-has it swung too far the other way. Where is the balance. Why is it so foreign on the ears of a "yankee" to hear yes m'am or yes sir. I am absolutely allowed to say that since I am from PA, moved south, had a cow the first time I heard such talk, struck it up to uncool obsolescence, and voila. Years later, I am teaching secondary and insist that students address their elders as M'am and Sir. What happened to me. Did I feel as if the way we speak to each other could affect behavior in my choir room (classroom)?

Now, as many schools are going with some type of dress code which is HOTLY debated., If you don't believe me, pull up some school board meeting YouTube clips. Like this one Click Here Yikes! The point that is trying to be made is that the way one dresses just might affect said person's behavior. Some are believers, some are not. Yet, my friends who are teachers who are still in the profession-God bless them-tell me it does. Do I believe it?

So, tell me. Have you dressed up to go out lately? It's kinda fun. (by the way, just for the record, I am not addressing the cross dressers who are reading-although I am sure it is its own brand of fun and I believe people should have that freedom of expression as long as it doesn't hurt anyone and has nothing to do with spandex beyond a size 2) I have to say it's rather refreshing to have a little formality every now and then.

Tell me how you feel about it. And for my Realtor friends, I haven't had the guts to show property in those orange crocs yet. (just maybe it's a "faux-pas" up there with overstretched, overworked spandex-or maybe freedom of personal expression-uh...maybe not).