Things around my house that are ok...and NOT ok

So living in the "country" on "land"--and I use those terms loosely due to the fact that we in fact only live about a mile out of the "burbs" and as far as "land" goes, we only have 2 acres, but still-- It has it's pros and cons...

One of the pros is all of the wildlife we get out in these parts such as:

This cute little road runner the kids named "Rodie"
Lived in our backyard...until he tried to cross the road to the neighbors and somebody squished him....maybe he thought he was a chicken.... I saw a couple more out there the other day :)

Deer...cute, but they poop on my lawn and eat my flowers....at least until I came upon them in my yard one night while driving into my driveway, at which point, I literally ran them off my land with my FJ, with Lauren in the car whining, "Moooooommm! you're so mean!!!"

A porcupine. or as we like to call them "porkily pines"
Again...tried to cross the road....you know the rest of the story...I'm not really sure I want any more of these...


THESE, however, I love!

These guys set up shop in the sewage drainage pipe of our RV...which is only about 3 inches in diameter to give you an idea of how small these fellas are...

check out their cute li'l afros

They look like Buckwheat


Peter Cotton-Tail lives out by our trampoline


See his cute li'l tail?
He eats weeds.
He is a good bunny.

Now.
There are some things around here that are not ok.

This is the devil's spawn.
Nutsedge.
It is a weed and it takes over EVERYTHING.
Why can't the deer eat that?


I am pretty sure I almost had a cardiac arrest when I saw this crawling up the outside of my house. Brave Lance destroyed it with a big rock....I think he screamed like a little girl a couple of times when it tried to attack him...

This I found while weeding the flower beds out front.
I was immediately done weeding.
I told Lance, "There is a dead Tarantula in the front yard...I'm done"
Lance, after further inspection, came to let me know, "No it isn't a dead Tarantula...it is a Tarantula SKIN...they molt...which means it's still alive somewhere....and bigger...."

What a jerk.

We found it a couple of days later.

not ok.

Also, we found one of these on our driveway....I'm pretty sure it's a baby rattlesnake...but I didn't want to find out, so I just went in the house and closed the garage door....and didn't tell my mom I saw it, or she'll never come and visit us again....