Angelwatcher: Life in the "little township"

As I was walking through the pasture, I noticed for the first time in a long time; fireflies

. Did you ever as a child catch these facinating bugs and watch them act as a "glow" light. I remember thinking that they were the most incredible thing ever created

. And I thought to myself; am I like that bug does my light shine so others will see me. Do I reflect what God would want? I know that there have been many times lately that I have thought to myself; I think not. Don't get me wrong, I haven't done anything wrong; but I would like to go back in my life and redo some things. But since that is impossible, I do believe I will move forward and be the best "Lightening bug" you ever saw.

I have been really blessed here lately to get to see and smell what "being a kid" on a summer's night is like. Last weekend we had a family reunion and EVERYONE with kids and dogs in tow showed up. We had a total of 29 people and 15 dogs. It was pretty cool listening to the laughter of the kids and watching them run and try and catch fireflies. Grownups sitting outside on the deck and recalling some of our funniest moments in life, and in the meantime creating some more. Spitting watermelon seeds at one another is definitely not for the faint hearted. When you get hit by one you can feel it. And in the background to all this were dogs playing, either with one another or with a child or 3. The smell of the woods and freshly mowed hay. It was incredible. No one complained to much about the heat. I do believe the being together and the laughter were enough to cover that

. Relationships were made; bridges built, walls brought down and best of all kids got to go and spend the night with someone "new". If you would have asked me even a year ago; did I think that such a weekend would come about with "this side" of the family; I would have laughed and said something along the lines "when hell freezes over". I am so very happy to have been blessed with such a time

. And I can't wait to do it all again in a year. Hopefully by then we will be able to add another kid or 2.

Being out here has brought to light for me just how very much I treasure my relationships with each of you. Wether it is by email or in person. I have been so blessed by each of you

and the things you have brought into my life. I still have so many things I want to do; and I hope to be able to do some of them while I am here. The stories about the animals are daily for me. Some are very little and some require their own chapter. But each one is special in its own way. I get to watch incredible things happen right outside my front door. Things such as "Sticky" and how he continues to amaze me. I love my little green tree frog. He sits outside everyday and takes life so easy. He is my little mentor. I can go out there and talk to him and he just listens; he is so good at that. And who would of thought that I would look forward to going to "Randalls" on a Saturday. We are getting up early to drive 80 miles to a store that I know has decent "meat". You would think that I was going to "Fiesta Texas"

; I promise you that is what it feels like to me. It is almost so wonderful I feel like I should "prepick" my outfit to wear. And on top of everything else it is a "GRAND OPENING"

. Let me just say that living in the country gives a brand new meaning to going to town. When we first moved here we froze our brand new bank account with Bank of America. From the way they put it; you would have thought we wrote "HOT" checks for a living

. It took 2 weeks to convince the bank and Wally World (WalMart) that we never bounced anything. And second this was not our first checking account. First I called Bank of America and threatened to close the account if they did not reissue new checks beginning with a higher number. This was followed by a call to "Telecheck" and tell them that the reason most ALL of our checks were to WalMart, is because it literally is the only place in this little town that has everything you need. Reality is; it seriously is. There is NO place in town that has a decent grocery place

. If you want something good and fresh like I used to get at HEB; well I have yet to find one anywhere close. Hence why we are going to Randalls. Back to the "rest of the story"; I had to talk with an Executive at Telecheck and explain this to him. He told me we had been flagged for writing so many checks to WalMart; and that the check number series was low. Steve ( our exec) said he has never run into this before;

I calmly explained that he has never met me; I was assured that the flag would be removed immediately and check writing could begin again. I promise I could have done a news story on this. The good thing is that everyone including myself survived this ordeal.