The Green Anole

Sitting at my dining room table, I happened to look out the window and notice this little lizard copping some sun!  LOL  I had a little chat with him to let him know that inside the house was not his place and politely picked him up to release him outside.

I remember when I was in high school, many years ago, that the boys would  pinch the jaws open on these little lizards and let them clamp on their ear lobes and hang as they walked around scaring people. Of course, you know guys....they thought this was fun!  No offense to the guys!  That was a long time ago.  I don't know if people still do this.

They do have teeth.  Just not sharp teeth because they have no need for sharp teeth.  I have handled many and have never had one bite me, so I'm not sure they bite or if they do, maybe it doesn't hurt.  I think I've read somewhere that they can hurt if they bite you.  I think they are cute little creatures!

Drive Through Zoo

What a day!  We decide that we would spend a Saturday with our youngest daughter at a drive through zoo that is about 3 hours from our house.  The place is called Lazy 5 Ranch: http://www.lazy5ranch.com/  

Anyway....this picture is from that day.  It's a longhorn cow.  He was walking up to the car as I was clicking pictures on my phone. I wanted to get a up close picture, but just as I snapped, he spoke!  Hahahahhahaa...I thought it was a great shot and a lucky shot.

We had a good time driving through and feeding all of the animals.   Although, it was a dusty job.  I had a bucket of feed sitting in my lap and the animals would automatically stick their heads in the window and go straight to the bucket.  At first, I was holding the bucket up to the window, but between the little breeze that day and the snorts the animals would make, feed dust would blow back in my face.  So I found that if I just kept the bucket in my lap, they would stick their head in the window, if they could.  I would hold it out for the ones that were either to short, or long horns.  LOL

Wedding Dress

It was an exciting day for all of us.  It was this past January, when my daughter, Krystal, her two maids of honor, her future mother-in-law, and myself, left from Murrells Inlet, South Carolina on our excursion to Columbia, South Carolina to a Bridal Shop.  We had a 3 hour drive, which really didn't seem like that, because of all the talking and laughing we did on our way.  

We stopped and had a light lunch, talked and laughed even more. Of course, my daughter then decides that she was going to try on wedding dresses and she wished that she had waited until afterwards to eat anything. (Like she is really big! ha!)

The excitement really begins when we walk into the door of the bridal shop.  Understand that this is my natural born baby girl, although I have four step-daughters, and one is already married, and married before I became part of the family.  

Once we are inside, we had to complete a register.  Then we were assigned someone that would take care of the finding dresses and help with trying on the dresses. After choosing a dozen or so dresses to try on, we head over to the dressing area.  We all have chairs around the stage and await for her to come out with her first dress.  We are all chatting about this and that when she walks out in the dress pictured here.  Well, let me tell you, when I looked up and saw my baby girl, tears came from out of nowhere and they rolled like a water fall.  I couldn't stop and didn't even know why I went from laughing to crying.  The feeling really came so sudden. It was just that instant of realizing that this was MY baby girl and she somehow grew up!  It was like I blinked when she was a baby and missed 24 years, and she was grown. She is my sunshine!