The Good, The Bad and The Crazy

First we'll start with the bad stuff... 

Brian found a copperhead in the studio the other night.  Is was super windy outside and the wind blew the doors wide open.  Evidently, the snake was attracted to the warm building, so he crawled right in.  Brian had gone over to let the dogs in for the night and he saw what he thought was one of the boys plastic snakes... until it moved.  He came back in the house, changed his flip flops to boots and after trying to chop the head off with a blunt garden hoe type thing with out any success, finally got the snake outside and chopped the head off with an ax. Yikes!

Now to the crazy stuff... Brian came home on Friday and told me (and I quote) "I did something today that you're going to roll your eyes at."  Honestly, he does stuff all the time that I think is silly/funny/weird/crazy, so I had no idea what to expect.  Evidently, he had gone to a local nursery and they had plants on sale.  They had quite a few left, so he offered to buy ALL of them if they gave him a deal.  The boy came home with 7 flats (just keep in mind that a flat is 12 plants) of pumpkin plants, 5 flats of canteloupe and hundreds of corn plants.  When I say hundreds, I am NOT joking.  Amongst these gillions of plants, we have a few varieties.  We now will be growing regular sweet corn (like corn on the cob that you eat), ornamental corn (the pretty multi-colored corn that you see as decoration around Thanksgiving), some other kind of colored corn and popcorn.  The two pictures below show what he came home with.  He had to go back and get more because it wouldn't all fit in the bed of his truck and the enclosed trailer.  Seriously.

(Just a side note, since he bought all the above plants, he has also bought a lemon tree, and orange tree and two blueberry bushes.) 

Here is a (far away, but current) picture of our garden now.

To plant all of that stuff that he bought, he's going to have to plow up a lot more land but I'm sure he's all about it.  He told me yesterday that we 'needed' a hay baler.  Have mercy.

Lastly, I just had to include this because it's the good stuff.  :)