Jeremy Herndon

Walt Disney has always been a huge influence in our lives.  Both my wife and I can remember as really young children watching the Wonderful World of Disney on television, and of course watching the Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club!  We grew up with them!  And our parents took us to so many of the wonderful Disney Movies as kids.  I blame the Bambi movie for my wife’s refusal to eat venison!

My wife had the good fortune to go to DisneyWorld many more times than I have been able to go.  When she was younger she lived close enough to Orlando to be able to drive there in a one day drive, and spend a week with her grandmother that lived only a half hour away from Kissimmee!  She went there every year for many years!  Lucky lucky lucky!

But now her grandmother isn’t there anymore, and my wife moved too far away to go there frequently.  Many changes have happened; she’s never been to the Animal Kingdom part of DisneyWorld.  As much as she loves animals, I’m sure that is one place she would love to go the next time we can arrange to go.  We’ll probably be trying to rent a condo through the Orlando Vacation Rentals service when we figure out a good time to go.  We like having all the comforts of home when we go away and not just be confined to a small two-bed one-bath room at a typical motel.

I know that black snakes are not poisonous, but they can still bite.  So when I was clearing out the back yard a few days ago and decided to move a little bit of a brush pile, I was not happy to find a nest of black snakes.  And of course they were not happy for me to find them either!  They were defending their nest, and came right after me!  I started to smack them with my shovel to get them to leave me alone.  When I told my wife about it she was upset with me for hitting them.  She didn’t believe me that they came after me, but they did!  I wonder what she would have done in that situation!

My wife has been talking about setting up her own business as a Personal Chef.  I teased her at first, telling her that she’s a horrible cook.  She got pretty mad at me about that!  Probably because I was teasing her in front of friends.  My bad.  Now that she’s explained it to me, I think it is a fine idea and I think she would do a great job at it!  She said she would meet with her client to determine their wants/needs, and set up a menu for a week.  She would go do the grocery shopping for the food, take it to their house and cook it there at their house, using their pots, pans, and dishes.  She would put all of the food in the refrigerator with reheating directions attached.  And that would take care of their dinners for a whole week.  For that she would charge the cost of the groceries and $200.  If she could get a couple of clients each week, that would be great!