i'm home in north carolina!  i've been here for a week now, but it was a very busy week, full of getting the house ready for 18 of our relatives to visit, which happened this weekend.  that's the reason i haven't posted in an embarrassingly long time...i've been very busy.  apologies!

to fill you in on some of our excitement: last week mom was weeding on a hillside near the house...and out slithered a copperhead!

eek!

dad came up from the shop with a tool that is apparently called a bush axe (shown on the right).  he killed it with one hack.

i stood on a picnic table for safety.

then it dripped blood everywhere.  i did not like that part.

the end.

(file this under "things that do not happen when you live in atlanta.")