Butterflies and Poop

Question of the day: Why do butterflies like poop? This is something I've never understood. Why would one of God's prettiest creations eat poop...because I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing. Dung beetles I get...butterflies I don't.

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Sound Girl

Running the sound is my job during Church. I actually know what most of these buttons do! I get really frustrated when I come in and someone has messed with my knobs!

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Sucking Honey

I have been teaching my niece to suck honeysuckles. She's decided she's having honeysuckle and pizza for supper.

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DIY

My brother is charging my car's air conditioner. This is very small town considering there is the chance of the can exploding. You're not really supposed to do this yourself, but we're not the kind of people to pay a lot of money to do something we can most likely do ourselves!

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Samson

Samson (the black bull) is HUGE! No picture can do him justice. Mom and Dad have three bulls. They hang out in the field and this is just their feed lot.
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Moving Cattle

Sure is fun moving cattle with a small dog, a 3-year-old, and a 1-year-old (not pictured).
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Backsplash Tiling

Check out how sweet the stove backsplash looks. And...it was a total accident. The counters on either side of the stove were different heights (off by over a 1/4 inch) so we could not continue our subway tile pattern because the caulk lines wouldn't have lined up right. We happened to have two full squares of glass tiles (plus a little more), and this is what we came up with. Like Bob Ross always said, "there's no accidents, just happy little mistakes". It's going to be the coolest part of the whole backsplash!
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Tile Progress

Progress is being made with the tiling, but unforeseen problems have come up that will put us on hold until more tiles can be bought. Not because we ruined any, but we need some of a different size/kind.
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Tiling

We've just begun to start tiling the backsplash in Mom's kitchen.
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Butter?

Can it really be classified as butter if Wal-Mart can stack it up in the middle of an aisle? No refridgeration needed.
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Noel's Spot

Noel has yet to move from this spot all day. My question is, does she do this every day? I don't think she's even gotten up to eat or go to the bathroom.
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Peonies

No matter how you pronounce them, peonies are a beautiful flower. I just picked these from my back yard. The huge flowers were weighing down the buds, almost to the ground!
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Rain Showers

Everything looks better after a short rain shower...except poison ivy. It still looks like poison ivy.
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Sanding Circles

Don't ever paint circles (or any shape for that matter) on your walls. You will eventually have to sand them down when you decide to paint again. If I were to just paint over these, I'd be able to see the shapes under the paint because there's extra paint layers where the circles are.
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An Ozarks Morning

Good morning from the Ozarks! This doe was in the middle of my county road this morning. She went into the field, and I managed to get this picture. Usually they run off and it's impossible to get a close up, but this one just stopped and stared at me. I just wish I would have had my Nikon with its telephoto lens!
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Instant Pizza

Little Caesars is the cheapest and fastest meal around. For $5, I get at least two meals. This is my regular after-grocery-shopping meal.
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Backyard

This is the view from my backyard! Now you know why I love living in the middle of nowhere.
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Construction

Ground is finally breaking on our new middle school. We're so excited. It'll be great to have two of everything instead of the middle school and high school sharing everything.
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Irises

Irises are amoung my favorite flowers. I know summer is almost here when they begin to bloom.
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Texting

Texting begins so early now days.
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Teacher of the Month

Here's my giftbag for being voted Teacher of the Month by the Future Teachers of America at our school. They had a meeting this morning to vote. It was unanimous...then again, only one kid showed up to vote. She nominated me even though she is barely passing my class. Go figure.

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Rising Creeks

After last night's storm with its major rain, lightening, hail and tornado warnings, I was glad to be alive and be able to get to work. This creek below my house was up and running, but it was passable.
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One of a Kind

How does this happen? I have 7 socks without a mate. Sock nomes? Do they come in at night and steal socks out of the dirty clothes hamper? I'm sure that there were two when I wore them, but for some reason there's only one when I pull them out of the dryer. I just don't get it. I never lose shirts or pants...just socks.
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Storm Damage

This tree in my field blew down. Could have been worse... A neighbor lost everything: house and out buildings.
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What Happened?

I'm freaked out by the re-model. What happened to the Wal-Mart blue? And they've totally re-modelled the inside too! I'm so confused.
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Guitar Hero Party

My drama kids are having a wrap party for the play in my classroom. Guitar Hero and snacks.
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THE Stack

The kids are begging to get these papers back, but I haven't even started yet because I dread them so much!
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Morning

Oh what a beautiful morning...
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On My Way Home!

Finally! I'm on my way home from project prom. I never fell asleep, but most of the kids did!
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More Decorating

This rainbow alone propbably took 3 kids around 9 hours to do. Ridiculous? Probably.
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Prom Decorating

How do you turn a gym into a wonderland? $4,000 worth of lights and gossamer.
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