Sweet Moves!

Girls like guys who have SKILLS!!! Bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills, and .....Mexican hat-dancing skills.

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A Friend at the Door

Last night I was shutting the blinds on the French doors in our living room, and found myself face to face with a little tree frog. He was just hanging out on the glass.
We brought him inside and gave him his very first photo shoot.

Joining the League

Todd and I have been looking for ways to keep busy out here, and found a great solution.

We joined a bowling league!

It's true, we did. Tuesday night is bowling night. We're having a great time chucking that roller down the lane. And every week they hold a raffle. The winner gets a customized bowling ball. Keep your fingers crossed for us! What should mine look like if I win? Leopard print?

And, not to brag of anything, but last night Todd bowled his highest score of all time - 202.
If you don't believe me, check out the picture. Of course we had to document it! Ha ha!

Gator Huntin'

Yesterday was just your typical lazy Saturday afternoon, until our new friends Troy and Rebekah called and asked us if we wanted to hang out. We threw around a few ideas of things we could do, and settled on. . .

Gator Huntin'!

There have been rumors swirling among the soldiers that there is an alligator in a lake on base, namely Lake Eck, and that it sometimes comes out if you bait it with hot dogs. We set out to find out if the rumors were true.

We already had Ballpark Franks in our freezer, but I wouldn't let Todd waste such a delicacy on a wild goose chase. So we headed down to the commissary, grabbed some Bar S doggies out of the lunchmeat isle, and took off for the hunt.

Little did we know that we should have grabbed more than one package.

As we pulled up at the lake, I couldn't believe it- there was the alligator, right before our eyes! We jumped out of the car, and I grabbed the camera, but by the time I had unzipped the camera case, the others had realized that what we saw was actually just a log. Classic!

Alright, so it wasn't going to be quite as easy as we planned. We started to circle the lake on foot, watching for ripples in the water, movement, or any other clues. Half an hour later, we were resting on a bench in the shade. By this time, I had been stung three times by ferocious ants, my shirt was stuck to my back from the heat, and we were all trying not to be too disappointed that we weren't going to see an alligator after all.

Who was going to eat all those Bar S hotdogs? I wondered to myself. Not me!

We all stood up, consigned to the fact that we were going to go home without a sighting, when lo and behold . . .

Did we find a gator that day?
Maybe we did, maybe we didn't.
To find out the answer, click on the video Todd made today.

We've got company!

Todd and I came home from a hot date to the movies last night (The Bourne Ultimatum - very cool). We came into the kitchen and flipped on the light, and VOILA! A new friend was on the floor, just waiting to play with us!

I jumped up on the counter, screaming, as Todd stepped into action (more like, stepped ON the action). Cockroach guts went spewing all over the kitchen floor! Todd was ready and willing to wipe them all up, but I insisted that we document this guy on the camera before the clean-up crew swept through.

My hope is that we won't see too many more of these guys, but Todd is trying to convince me that cockroaches will just be "a way of life while we're out here, and we've got to get used to it." He's so tough! He's also excited to make his way to the store to buy bug killing spray, so he can reinforce our doorways and such. Don't worry guys, he's on it.

The Confederacy is Still Alive!

Yep, folks, that is a Confederate flag raised and flying in that front yard. Todd and I were driving along the highway here in beautiful Alabama, and as we zoomed past this house, I said, "Did I just see that for real?!" Needless to say, we flipped a U-ey and parked across the street. I couldn't miss my opportunity to document this treasure of the South.

Last week, Todd and I visited Montgomery, Alabama, a mere hour and a half away. For those of you who may not know, Montgomery housed the Confederate Presidency back in the Civil War days. We set out on a mission to discover just how serious these Southerners are about the Confederacy, and came up with some good stuff.

We saw the first White House of the Confederacy. Yep, home of the one and only Jefferson Davis himself. I was expecting something with a little more grandeur, you know, DC style. But as it turns out, JD and his family lived here, but he worked at the capital building across the street, which is much more elaborate.

At the capital, there is a huge monument dedicated to the Confederacy. It displays different Confederate flags that were designed over time, and has a cornerstone laid by Jefferson Davis. Pretty sweet!

You may know that Montgomery was also deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement. It was here that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. Martin Luther King Jr. lived and preached here. There is a Civil Rights Center which, unfortunately, closed just minutes before Todd and I got there.

This monument was outside the Center. I loved it. It is made of stone and the reason it looks a little glossy is because there is running water coursing down the entire thing. The quote is from Martin Luther King Jr. He paraphrased scripture, referring to the Civil Rights Movement and their need to continue to work on equal rights despite hardship,

" ...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a moving stone..."

The circular slab lists dates and events of the Civil Rights Movement and also has water coming up through the center and coursing over the edges. The entire monument was very profound.

My first blog post ever

Hi y'all!

The accents are thick, the bugs are huge, and the humidity is sweltering.

Todd and I have now moved to the booming metropolis of Enterprise, Alabama, and feel a little bit like we've entered a foreign country. It takes at least two hours to drive to any place you've heard of before, and we sourly predict that we will have few -if any- visitors while we're here. And so I have taken it upon myself to create this blog so that you can get a little taste of what we've got going on here.

Take a look at some of the creatures we are sharing our yard with.

This one might be a cricket??? We were walking towards our front door when we couldn't help but see it, perched near our porch light. I said, "Todd, grab the camera! This guy is huge!" We think this guy might be one of the bugs we hear singing at night.

This gecko definitely ought to be paying us rent. We see him in our front and back yards almost daily. He might actually be a chameleon, because he's been a few different colors at different times, but he is always around. Todd chased him around our backyard today. Not sure why. . . .