I am tired... Vinyl apparently has not gone out of style yet because my phone rings constantly and last week I did stuff for 5 Super Saturdays (or Fabulous Fridays/Terrific Tuesdays... etc... etc... (aka... LDS Enrichment Craft Day)). I only have 19 more to go in the next 6 weeks... At an average of 100 projects per activity (vinyl/wood/metal/etc.) and 20 additional orders per week... I will be VERY tired and THANKFUL for THANKSGIVING!! (No more orders till January after that.)
If I could just learn how to say... NO....
My story for the week will involve animals... my favorite... this time of the small rodent variety. The cold weather was bound to hit us... brrrr... Personally I'm ready for spring all ready... But since it is not, it was time to harvest some of our vegetables from our garden. The girls and I were out pulling up all the onions for storage. I was carefully turning over the dirt to make sure that we had gotten them all. I was almost finished when I pressed my foot down hard on the shovel and heard a HORRIBLE sound. LOTS of little SQUEEKS! As I turned the dirt over I uncovered a nest... of little mice... about ten went scurrying in every direction. I FREAKED! I always thought that we lived in the best neighborhood ever... But I may need to rethink that as no one came running when I let out the loudest "CLOSE TO MURDER" scream EVER! (A video would have put you over the top here - but picture my girls fear of fish... then think of this image... I freaked out WAY MORE!) I couldn't stand up straight for a full minute... I thought I had literally busted something... and I couldn't breathe either! My scream was followed by Saige's scream... After calming down for a minute we all checked it out. Amazingly they were awfully cute and tiny - huddling together after being tormented by the shovel lady... but that sound will surely haunt me in some weird nightmare... ICK!! My girls who are scared of fish... wanted to keep one as a pet, and Jadyn REALLY wanted to hold one... she kept going back to try and get one, and say "ohhh, so cute". I assured them that when Dad saw them... well let's just say they wouldn't be there anymore. Tayler my animal lover quickly called Shelby's boys (also animal lovers) to see if they wanted them. Of course Shelby said no... but since Tayler had already caught one in a bucket for them... and they had brought their cage over... they went home with one... that only lived for a day...
So I thought the little mice story was over... except that one scurried across the garage this morning when I opened the back door... makes me think we need a cat... J/K - maybe you read an earlier post on my animal phobias... a cat is one thing I can definitely say NO to!
4 comments:
Oh my gosh Ang! My mom's biggest phoebia is mice. She would have absolutely had a heart attack and rolled over dead. I'm not even kidding you. I bet she could have topped your scream by about 5 times. You'll have to tell her this story, she'll freak just hearing it. :)
A mouse scurried across our laundry room yesterday. I felt like the elephants on Dumbo, jumping all around and screaming. Not a pretty sight.
Phobias are not a laughing matter, but I just can't help it. You would have shriveled up and died in my family. When it was time to haul hay, us kids would roll the bales into lines for my dad to pick up. Often we'd roll over a bale and discover a mouse. We stomped them and then our dog would eat them. (Don't tell your girls. I am a mouse killer.) Little mice also used to get trapped down our window wells. I'd put on my dad's big leather gloves and pick up the mouse by the tail and spin it really fast for a minute. Then, I'd set it on the ground and watch as it wobbled like a drunken sailor. Just as it was beginning to travel in a straight line I'd pick it up and give it another spin. Once I'd done that a time or two I let it go. I figured that it wasn't fair to kill it.
Good thing it wasn't a pile of snakes under that shovel. Baby mice...that's nothing. But I guess you are just a bunch of girls..just kiddin. Thanks for your comment on our blog and yes I did check out the video and it is way cheesy. I do have to say I'm impressed because playing piano and singing at the same time is quite difficult. Tell the rest of the Falslev crew that Uncle Benji and Aunt Anne say hello.
Benji
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