Church Fans

Ladies, if you are in your 50's, then you know we all need a little extra help in the cooling department sometimes. At those times, I find myself flailing, sweating and slinging clothes, pillows, bed covers...whatever. Cliff's mama sympathizes with me. In her gentile, southern, ladylike way sent me a wrapped gift by Cliff. When I opened it, this church fan was what I found. Ha! I commenced to whooping and fanning.

Cliff said, "If you take that thing to church, I'm not going!"

HaHa!

Well, for over a week now, we have been having extremely warm weather, so I didn't need to wear a coat to church yesterday....just long sleeves.  I wore this cute little number. No, that's not me.....she's a Glamour Farms model. I love that little online shop.

Anyway, it turns out that I didn't even need the long sleeves. During church service I felt like I was about to have a heatstroke. I had already pushed my sleeves up when I leaned over and told Cliff that I needed my church fan. He rolled his eyes so hard that I thought he was going to turn ramrod stiff and start speaking in tongues. HaHa! I used the church bulletin instead. 😂

Laurie

Cliff said......

 Here's a pretty bloom to start your weekend because Lord knows we need something lovely to meditate on, especially after yesterday's encounter.

Now if you know anything about me, then you know I am deathly afraid of snakes. Well, I had an encounter, yesterday.

Do you remember this picture? I was pulling up weeds and grass by hand, laying down newspaper and then topping it off with wood chips. I finished that stage of the garden project and now I'm putting down a flagstone path around the outside perimeter of the garden to make mowing around it easier. I'll show you that, when I'm finished.

Yesterday, I was pushing the newspaper back on the outside edge and....OMG! There lay a snake. I just about freaked out. My hand was close enough that I may have touched it. I have never been so close to a snake before, except the time I stepped on one, when I was a child. Which is probably the reason I'm so afraid of them. Anyway, I backed up so fast that I nearly stumbled. For a split second I thought about running in the house and staying there. But, I braved up, grabbed the shovel and chopped the mess out of him. First time ever! He was all of 8 inches long. Long enough, okay!

Later, I asked Cliff if he told his mama that I had killed a snake and Cliff said, "She couldn't believe it - she almost choked on a vanilla wafer, when I told her."

HaHa! She knows me well.

We won't talk about the King snake I saw in the flower bed by the back door, this evening.  Now that one sent me running and squealing back into the house.

Happy Weekend,

Laurie

Cliff said....

Something's wrong with this coffee. It smells like the air you let out of tires.

 ~Cliff

Ha!

 Laurie