Bwaa-aa-a-hahaha!!

Okay, but it IS cute!

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What DOES one do with a dead possum?

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Yes I know it's opossum, but who says that?  I came home from work as usual tonight, after dark, also as usual. I'm tired but it's Friday so I am happy.  I gather my purse and my bag of fast food and get out of the car, moving around to the back to open the door and take my computer bag out.  I set it on the driveway and pulled the handle out, wheeling it around behind me as I stepped toward the porch and the dead animal.  WHAT?  


After I stood frozen to the spot for a full minute or 2 it occurred to me that I couldn't do anything right that second and OH!  It's a possum!  Probably scared him when I drove up the driveway!  I stepped over him making sure I didn't hit him with my computer bag as I stepped up on the porch, unlocked the door and went inside.  

GRAPHIC IMAGE

Um .. does anyone know how long a possum traditionally plays possum once the cats aren't watching from the window anymore?  Cause - it's awful cold out there and he's really going to be dead if he doesn't get up and run away soon.  


GO Mr. Possum, go!  Mr. Possum?  Ew.


**Apparently people pay $55.00 for a man to come and take away animals that have crawled up your driveway to die.  I guess the city only takes them for free if it is on the street or the parkway.  NO, I'm not dragging it down to the street.  Ew.  He's kind of a cute big headed little animal (his name is Larry) but possums are nasty, germy animals.  I'll let a professional handle it.


***And then the man who was coming out this morning calls and says he can't find my address.  Turns out he thought I was in another town.  If it's my town - the price is $125.00.  So lets be clear. There is an empty lot across the street, kitty corner to me.  If I were a bad citizen I could pick up Larry with a shovel, carry him across the street and unceremoniously dump him.  Ahem.  Instead I say no thank you to the $125.00 offer and move on.  He calls back - how about $85.00?  Um, no thank you.  I called somewhere else - IN the town I live in - $150.00!  For a possum that is not under a porch or in an attic or inside my garage.  Larry is laying peacefully on my driveway, next to the porch.  Next phone call - found a guy who can be here in a half hour for $65.00.  Sold.  Somehow this is not a contingency I have ever planned for.  I must remember to plan better.
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Sometimes it's worth the wait

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Cleaning her room is a process for my daughter. It can take several days and always involves much laundering of clothes and throwing away of .. well, things. Lots.of.things. It is also something of an archaeological dig and the finds can be fabulous. Dani, on the phone with her boyfriend:

“Honey? I found a light, it looks like a light. It’s in a box and it’s round. Its – it’s a car part Tony. I found a car part in my room.”

She becomes a scientist studying the artifacts she discovers as she digs through the many layers covering her floor. She finds things she can’t identify and does not remember which frankly, freaks me out a little.

A few books are always found.


I know she's a vegetarian but I had no idea she was growing her own food under her bed!


This guy has been SO helpful!

There are always a few strange things uncovered ...


...like some random Smurfs


...and the occasional family of borrowers.

But what I am looking forward to the most ...


.. is this much stuff ending up on the curb come garbage day!

Unfortunately, something always gets missed!

He IS kind of cute though, isn't he?
Sigh-h-h.