Sprinklers

Now that the weather has warmed up, it seems to be a bit difficult for me to get pictures of Carter where she has any clothes on. I spent one day this week dressing her at least four times. When she came back in the house naked the 5th time she loudly declared "I just want to be naked". Considering where I live--in a coulee surrounded by wheat fields and pasture--with my closest two neighbors being my brother and my aunt, I can't see too much point right now in making a big deal of it. 'Sides, she's two. Who needs clothes when you're two? While I am trying to keep this blog from utterly mortifying my baby girl when she gets older, if I only posted fully dressed pictures, I don't think I'd have many to post this summer.

On Wednesday while Blake was over here watching Carter, We set up the sprinkler for Carter to run through the grass, such as it is. I know it's not nearly as nice as the grass as Aunty's, but we're working on it. It's already better than it was last year. At any rate, she had a great time and plumb wore herself out. She kept going out later in the afternoon and turning the water on herself and soaking down whenever she thought she needed it. Not sure how good it was for all the baby grass we're trying to grow...

The big excitement later was the bull snake who was checking out my flower bed right by the house. I really had to give a pretty stern lecture to Carter (with serious spanking warnings) if she got near it. I had called my dad who was up spraying the wheat up top to see if he would come be the big heroic male and remove the snake from us, but the snake wisely decided to go elsewhere. Dad figured I should just get a long stick and flip it away from the house. Ya, right, and show Carter just how to play with snakes. We didn't see many snakes around here last year, and hopefully this summer will be the same. I really don't mind snakes, but Carter's naturally curious nature does make me nervous. This was only a bull snake, but there are plenty of rattlers around.