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Since We’re on the Subject of Freaky Critters…

May 30, 2011

Look what my mom found out in the courtyard at their house the other day! A nice lovely rat snake just over five feet long. It was making it's way across the courtyard and toward the porch when she saw it. Now, my mom is deathly afraid of snakes...so you can imagine her reaction. I was on the phone with her at the time, and she just about when into a full blown panic attack. She started yelling 'Oh my God...' over and over, and at first I had no idea what she was on about. I though that either some was breaking into the house or she was having a heart attack. Then the screaming and F bombs started flying. Only a snake can get to her like that. My dad happened to come home just then, so he took care of it. Though, judging by the looks of the snake, he unloaded half a clip into it. He's not much better than my mom.So now my mom is swearing up and down that she will no longer step outside the rest of the summer. This happens at least once every year, and she will stay in for ...

Terrell, TX: Home of Freakish Mutant Opossums

May 29, 2011

February OpossumOur yard seems to have become the playground of opossums. These aren't small, little spindly opossums. They're the size of frickin beavers! Or a good size medium dog.Back in February, Tobi chased one up the fence and proceed to dangle a few feet in the air while hanging onto it's tail. With the help of our neighbor, we manged to catch it and get it in a cage. What followed next turned into the weirdest two hours of our lives. We waited for over an hour for Animal Control to show up, and all we got was an overtired cop in a cop car. At looking at it and determining that yes, it was indeed a opossum (duh!) and no, he couldn't put it in the back seat of the police car since the cage didn't close (we were holding it in there with some rope and a large PVC pipe), he left to go get the Animal Control truck. He shows back up thirty minutes later still in his police car, proclaims that he has just the thing, and pulls out a cinder-block from the trunk of the car. A ...

more Blogger issues

May 28, 2011

Blogger is still all wonky, even though they said that they fixed it two weeks ago. Now Google Friend Connect is down, with not comments from Blogger at all. I'm still having problems posting and editing, and several of my labels have been screwed up the downtime. I have yet to recover the comments that disappeared as well.So...updates may be a little slow this weekend. ...