§ Palm Sunday Morning....

A few years back, I saw just ahead of me on a trail while out birding a 5 rattle rattlesnake. It crossed my path!  Needless to say, I was always more weary of returning there. But got over it! And then, a couple of times, in the tall grass [one in the pond] at another refuge, as I walked - water moccasins! ALL, thank goodness were several feet ahead of me. I did, however, stop "dead in my tracks" each time. Still, I eventually kept going forward and watched every move I made until I felt out of harm's way.  If they're venomous, I don't react with my camera...I remain aware of each and every movement.  Yet, I have taken photos of snakes that are NOT poisonous.  For instance a Diamondback WATERsnake...shown here. [supposedly the largest non-venomous snake in North America.]  It was huge, that, I'll give you.  And it was watching me.

Then, on the local news, a short two minute segment showed that at a popular local hangout, at the beach, a huge, 6 foot diamondback rattlesnake was seen a few days ago. Naturally, some fool someone recorded it on their cellphone. Watch their video here.  Watch its forked tongue.  :::chills:::
Above image is a screen shot from the news clip.

Friday and Saturday, Bud and I took the notion to do a thorough cleaning of the house. From ceiling to carpet. In every room! Lo and behold, on Sunday then, the day I figured I'd take a morning off and walk the snake infested beach!! [lol]. Guess what? I got as far as Packery Channel of North Padre Island, and it was threatening to turn into some nasty weather. Which reminds me of Creedence Clearwater's "Bad Moon Rising".

Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye.

I think, by cleaning house from top to bottom, it brought on the change in temps and lack of a sunny day. It sure seemed that way, and I promised myself I would not clean house again so thoroughly. I left home about an hour after sunrise, tho the sky was a "pre-dawn" gray; overcast. I still got out and walked the short boardwalk, not expecting to see any thing or anyone else out in the early morning hour, on Palm Sunday. The winds picked up, the sky darkened and the pleasing 70° dropped all too quickly as I figured I'd better head back to the car before I got soaked....

Check out the blackened, threatening, sky:

I drove home; made a cheesecake.

§ Seeing Double!

Not much going on around Hootin' Anni's abode. I was going to paint some more yard figurines after I finished the brown pelican last week which I posted pictures on Thursday, and then...a light bulb went on! I remembered that I threw out ALL my acrylic paints 'cause they were so dried out, even adding water did little good. So, I am slowly restocking my supply. I bought eight of the 'primary' colors that are used most often, and then will get more to replenish in time. Besides, the days are getting much warmer now and I will probably wait a while in order to be able to paint in the closed in garage. I WILL paint my rose vine bird bath tho...I need to buy paint for that too...I'm gonna use spray paint for that project.

I bought a Chromecast for our new TV [55" smart TV -we like to watch movies on a big screen!!]. Now, I can get free movies and cast TV programs that we would like to watch on a larger screen instead of the laptop. It took me a couple days to get the equipment set up [Bud is not internet tech savvy, his biggest accomplishments is operating the remotes]...but now we are catching up on the regular scheduled programs from the three free national networks. Fun now, but I was, at times, ready to throw it all out the window!!!  The piece of equipment is only a one cost payment of $35.  A lot cheaper than a monthly subscription to Amazon Prime or Cable installments. A savings of probably $1200 plus a year.

Now to some photo shares.  I've been wearing glasses since I was a teenager.  Recently while walking I was seeing double:

It's May already!  This month, will be my 6 month follow up appointment with the cardiologist.  IF I remember to set up an appointment.  Time goes by awfully fast these days.