The Wild Kingdom AKA Our House - Brady

Cut my normal hour of yard work short today. Why? Pretty sure I both tore out poison oak and disturbed a brown recluse spider hiding in the ivy I was ripping off our house.

Which are worse - gross city things (cockroaches, grime, etc.) or gross country things (poison plants and spiders)? I'm voting country things - at least cockroaches can't do THIS to you. (No, you know what? I was going to link the word "THIS" to a picture of a brown recluse spider bite, but it's too gross. You can look it up yourself if you're really curious.)

Mos def going to buy myself some new, non-holey gardening gloves today. These just aren't cutting it anymore in the wild kingdom.

Our Beautiful House - Brady

I love our house in Fort Wayne in any season, but spring is my favorite. On days like today when the weather is so great, I think I'll miss living here full time a lot.

This was actually taken at Thanksgiving, but it's really the only one we've got of an inside view.

Our room. It opens up onto a little porch in the back and a little strip of woods that separates our house from the ones behind us.

I love this picture. My husband took it of our road. Motorcyclists love to drive down it because it's really pretty and really winding.

A stone path leading to our front door and some of our flowering trees.

View of our house coming up our driveway.