very busy day

Summer is definitely here and I know this because, not only is it unbearably hot, we have had our first tarantula sighting of the year. My dad and I found it several days ago hiding under a rock in the front yard. Luckily my mom had just gone in the house. I cried about the tarantula but then I befriended it from afar. I named her Spidey. This morning when we left the house to go to the bus roadeo, Spidey was sprawled out in all of her fuzzy glory on my front walkway. She was quite sickly and did not survive the day. In the late afternoon, my dad helped me dig a big hole so I could bury her. Goodbye Spidey.

Let's not even talk about our hours-long journey to the bus roadeo (let's just chalk it up to some bad directions, worse mislabeled maps, and the inability - not my mom's - to distinguish left from right) but I had fun while I was there though I did not behave very well. I was hot, tired, and hungry and I kept trying to run away. I would have behaved perfectly if people (namely my parents) would have just let me do whatever I wanted to do . . . and chased me for miles and miles in the hot sun. I am getting faster by the day.

In the first photo, I am taking a ride around the lot on a paratransit bus. Normally I like the green buses best but not today.

I met a sweet miniature horse named Little Wanderer and I got to brush her. She tried to eat my golden hay hair right off of my head. And I tried to feed it to her.