City girl mistake with a history lesson

I know there are a lot of things a city girl needs to learn about counrty life i.e. you can't pet a rooster and I thought I caught on pretty well until the other day.
I put a whole Chinkapin into my mouth-shell and all. I know you're supposed to shell nuts but since the pricky part was gone I figured the brown pea shaped nut was the part to eat. Wrong. You still have to take the shell off. What's a Chinkapin you ask?

This is what it looks like out in the wild. See the prickly part? Don't be surprised if you've never seen one before. Sometime back in the 1940's and 1950's the Ozarks (and the entire South east) were struck by a tree disease called "Chestnut Blight". It killed most of these trees and for a long,long time people and animals had to do without these delicious treats. Slowly, they are coming back and they taste better than chestnuts and they are about the size of a chestnut too.
Here's what I popped into my mouth:

not a whole hand full-just one.
So crack your nuts and don't eat the shells.

October 1st

To many people, today is just an ordinary day-a Wednesday-and really a day of no importance. There are ten more days until Casey's Birthday and thirty days until Beth's Birthday. Seventeen until Beth and Jody celebrate their very first anniversary. To me, October first starts fall. I know the calendar says it starts sometime in September-but that's for the fools that have Christmas decorations out with their pumpkins. So it's finally October, and now my fall decorations can come out. There's the pumpkin, spider web, and the little ghosts. Candy corn in the candy dishes and time for caramel apples. If you look real hard-you might find the Halloween candy I've hidden from Dwight and Lauren. I don't have little ones to dress up or plan a costume for-so I sit waiting for my sister to post pictures of her adorable little ones. I don't think she can top her costume from last year-a friggin' jellyfish that glowed-but she's full of surprises.
There's fall festivals and Harrison has their "Homecoming" on the square this weekend. I might get to go if I'm not helping Dwight with deer meat.
Meanwhile, I hear caramel apples calling my name.

Things you see at a Bike Rally

There are people that do jumps on motorcycles:

And really weird helmets

and sweet blue trikes

and yellow ones too

and orange

and ones that look really mean

and Fat boys

                                                  and custom bikes

The Cat store

To say Dwight doesn't hate my cats might be a little on the optimistic side. He's never mean to them, but he won't feed them or cuddle or play with them. To be fair, there are 6 of them. I started with Lauren's cat Vixie-who gave birth. I adopted "Dot" and Lauren was unable to find a home forDot's litter mate "Hitler".  I wasn't too worried-I had miss Dot fixed along with Vixie and all was well. Until Hilter gave birth. Her first littler this year was early in the spring. I found kittens that didn't make it but I didn't find all the bodies-and "Willie" appeared as a half grown kitten. Some idiot told me that I needed to wait until she stopped nursing to have her fixed-wrong, she delivered another litter-and now we have Munchkin and Midnight. Who are adorable, but are on the look out for a good home along with Willie and Hitler.But as it stands now, there are 6 cats at the house. All of them stay outside(sometimes Vixie sneaks into the basement to do a little cleaning). So Dwight is pretty patient-or he was until he saw a bill for a litte over fifty dollars at the Cat-O store. What in the world did I buy for the cats at the Cat-o store? I had to really think for a minute there. Then it came to me-the store is not the Cat-o store it's the Cato store (prononunced Kay-toe) where I bought a couple of shirts for work. The cats will just have to run around in their birthday suits.

Hobby

I have a new hobby-well an old hobby that the hubby and  I got back into-and believe it or not-it does NOT involve my beloved Pinterest. Hubster has set a 55 gallon aquarium-and he is still experimenting with fish in it and I have a much, much smaller aquarium. Mine is for the night time. I have a blue light and fish that "glow" in the dark. I would take pictures and  post them but I can't take pictures of things in the water that come out clearly. Especially tiny quickly moving things so you'll just have to take my word on it-they were a live when I left this morning and this is what is in my tank.

tequilla sunrise guppies

Glow in the dark Danios

and a snail for cleaning.

Sunday Hawk Creek Falls

Today we went for a ride down Hwy 7

and this was my view but we stopped at Hawk Creek Falls so I got to see this

and this

 

and some pretty views of the mountains too

Then we added 3 tequila sunrise guppies to my fish tank and a clown loach, an angel fish, and a blue gourami to Dwight's tank.

again...

I know I posted this picture 4 years ago, but I'd do it all again. Happy 4th Anniversary Dwight.
These last 4 years have been incredible.