Suzi Strauss

The kids love to play in the water and some days it is very hard to get away to the pool or to the lake, so they have to make do with playing in the water sprinkler in the yard. This I do not mind at all the kids get to play in the water and my yard gets some much needed water on it at the same time. The pool is only about a mile away and I will not let my kids go there alone, call me old fashioned but I think the parents need to be at the pool with their kids. It is not a handy dandy baby sitter for the summer you need to be with your kids, for everyone to have fun at the pool.

We have a new pet out in the front yard, we have been invaded by a six foot black snake that has taken up residence in our front yard. A couple of years ago we had another bigger black snake in the same spot in the yard, I picked up the first one and it drug the ground on both ends, it must of been eight feet long, this new one is smaller and it is not afraid of us at all. It may of been a pet that was let go because it got to big or the kids lost interest. I do not mind the snake it eats moles and mice so it is welcome to our yard.

We have been trying to get the yard cleaned up and all the leaves raked up but as soon as we make some headway on it we get another storm that blows more leaves from our neighbor into our fresh raked yard. That is one thing I really dislike about this time of year the leaves go everywhere and we try to keep our raked up and we get more leaves that could ever be on our trees. Once we get the last ones up it will be spring and we will not have to worry about the mess anymore.