goats, spiders, snakes and much, much more... admission $4.00 + tax...

so we recently moved... and my sons love it.. especially anthony. and i love alot of it.... but there is alot i am coming to terms with.... here are some examples... please provide helpful suggestions or any advice...




1: driving a few blocks from house almost hit stupid goat... only to sit there while 3 more go by.. hello.. our dog has to be on a leash or in a fence but not our livestock?? is this a new law out here?



2. found snake in pool... swimming like it was built for him.... silly snake.. he was promptly squashed... much to anthony's chagrin.. he was certain it wasn't a killer water moccasin but i wasn't... **(now i know what they look like so i feel a little better)



3. found black widow in flower bed... and to make it worse i didn't know it was a black widow... it was huge and scary and beautiful.. but then i found out it doesn't kill its mates... it kills us and somehow that overshadows its beauty.. he too was squashed...



4. these little (but kinda big) millipede things *(thanks for the education paul) are in our pool every morning... atleast two of em... and they are always crawling down on the bottom and no matter what, they are alive... please explain this crap to me cause i don't get it?? i looked em up in the dictionary...

"a myriapod invertebrate with an elongated body composed of many segments, most of which bear two pairs of legs. Most kinds are herbivorous and shun light, living in the soil or under stones and logs" ...

notice it doesn't say they breathe water.. so why is it that since we got here they decided they wanna be fish??? what the heck??



5. today i went to put a drink in the cup holder of my lounge chair and there was a stinkin frog in it... i almost fell in the pool... of all the logs and rocks around here he wants my mesh cup holder... weird...



there are so many more... but i shall stop for now... but seriously some weird freaky stuff goes on here... i lived in the country when i was younger but somehow my brain thinks we lived in a bubble for the last 10 yrs instead of rivershire... dominic touched the back of my neck with a long piece of grass and i though a snake was attacking me... the kids thought it was hilarious!! and again i almost fell in the pool...



anyway.. i will overcome my fear... i will let you guys know when that occurs :)