"a grown man don't wear sandals"

One of the hazards of living on my street is the seasonal migratory visit from drunken cousins. I couldn't get to my camera in time to catch this diatribe in its full glory, but hopefully you'll get the gist of it. I have more footage of Brian in high form, but I don't know how much to post.

Baby Donkeys!

Welcome two new donkeys to Deason Farms! Young Jasper "Jap" Jones and young Buster "Bus" Jones are healthy baby jacks. So far Bus is the more playful of the two, as Jap's mother won't let anybody get near him to pet him. Daddy sits out by the gate and just watches them sometimes (note the chair in one of the pictures).

Froggie love

Well, it's that time of year again. The frogs are mating in my kiddie pool and I am forced to become what I like to think of as the Frog-eban Morality Police. I have nothing personal against the frogs, but I don't want them spawning in my kiddie pool! So I try to keep the ample armies of amorous amphibians at bay with flashlight light. It doesn't work, but at least I try. And they make enough noise out there to raise the dead.

Gilligan trees a turkey

Well, the title says it all.

Herpin' with Ginger

Ginger and Luis came to visit. Ginger has become fascinated with snakes and other reptiles and amphibians and has gone so far as to purchase a professional snake stick with which to examine the specimens that she finds in the woods. She took me out hunting snakes on a daily basis while she was here. Unfortunately we never found anything exciting. She did manage to find one snake and it almost doesn't count because it's not big enough to even use the snake stick on. We got some cool pictures of it, though. Feast your eyes on the dreaded worm snake.

Buddy's hangover excuse

Isn't it amazing what kinds of weird things you run across when you aren't trying? I was just looking for a clean sheet of paper to keep up with my radical feminist critique of the latest James Bond movie (which, for those interested, took over 15 minutes into the movie before ANY woman gets to even SPEAK! - I know, I know, you say, it's James Bond, Prince of misogyny...still, I had HOPED. I mean, Dame Judy Dench is in it!!!!), when I opened an old notebook to this page. I had to laugh. The game was Scrabble. And Buddy's pathetic excuse for the slaughter is a hang-over. Ha! I'm just surprised I didn't get him to sign it for further verification!

I lied. Really, the final Ek' Balam picture.

I couldn't let go of Ek' Balam with just a picture of a plant and a bird. I had to add this final picture. Enjoy.