Friggin' Spiders!

Something's been eating me alive while I sleep at night. It looks like spider bites. I was up until 3:30am Sunday morning, tearing the room apart, the bed, washing linens, vacuuming, dusting, everything to get rid of whatever's biting me. When I awakened later Sunday morning, I had a new bite to show for my efforts. Grrrr. I hate spiders! I now have about 6 of these huge bites on me and they itch for days on end! I had chiggers once and they weren't this bad!

Summer is going great here at my house. The lawns look gorgeous. The weather's been nice: not too hot yet, not too cool. I dread the coming of fall and winter though.

Fall's nice. It's a pretty season. The bright colors of changing foliage, the cool nights and cool days, but I can't enjoy it because I know what's around the corner. If only I had a place to go for the winters, I'd be happy. A place like...oh, I dunno....Aruba? Arizona? One of those warm "A" places.

In anticipation of the coming winter, and Greg's claim that "we're not living here one more winter!", I've been looking at homes for sale in the area. I know we could get enough from this place (the acreage alone would buy another home) to get something nice and decent with a normal lane and heat. There's one nearby that I may look at in the next few days. It's a new home, built in '98, sits on one acre (okay, NOT what I'm used to, but still...) and is dirt cheap! A loan company owns it, so I'm not sure what the condition of the place is. I'll let you know.