Random Things

We have encountered numerous creatures during the past week...

Sunday - I woke up super early on Sunday to get some work done and took a peek outside just after the sun rose. There was a rather large coyote just hanging out right outside our fence. Maybe it was waiting for me to let Dash out again...it looked a bit hungry.

Monday - I woke up, got showered, dressed and got Kasey ready for the day. We went downstairs and when we hit about the third step from the bottom, I saw a big old nasty cockroach. Eeeeeeeeek! I thought...ok, I will let Dash out of his crate and let him go to town on it. So I put Kasey down in his exersaucer and let Dash out. He didn't want any part of it. Ok. What do I have here that I can throw at it or on it? Hmmm....oooh! A new pack of Katie's pullups. WHAM! Nope - missed. Hmm...oooh! There is one of Brian's big old boots - WHAM! Nope - missed again. (see a trend here?) OK, one more boot...WHAM! Nope - missed again. Now it's under the hutch. Great. Like I am going to try to get it out from under there. Ha!

Katie wakes up about this time and so I go up there and get her ready for day care. We come downstairs and I warn her of the roach. She doesn't want any part of it either so she opts to eat her breakfast in the front room. Fine by me!

Ok, Katie is at day care...keeping my eye out for the cockroach. It's gotta come out eventually, right? Tick tock, tick tock...THERE IT IS!! OK, time to kill the dang thing! Alright, let's see...ooh! Another pair of shoes, let's try those again. This time I stand on the couch so I can try to hit it from above. (Ha!) Shoe #1....WHAM! Close, but no cigar! Shoe #2 - WHAM! Woo hoo!! It's not dead, but it is severly injured. Ok, what else? Hmmm...oooh! A big notebook. OK, Ready....Aim....DROP! YAY!!!!! Perfect drop. OK...that does it for me. Unless I see it crawling around again, I am going to wait for Brian to come home and dispose of it. I did the hard part, right?

Tuesday - We have had this tree frog hanging out on our window almost every night. He is back. Tonight he has a visitor! A praying mantis - cool....

Wednesday - After I pick Katie up from day care, we are getting home and Katie says "Mama, there's a huge cockroach on the door!!" No, there wasn't. Phew! It was just one of the BILLIONS of lizards that hang out around our house...no biggie. I will just spray it off the door with the hose. I know it sounds mean, but would you want to touch it? No, thank you!

Thursday - The praying mantis is back! Not the best picture. I took it from inside the house through the window, but you get a pretty good idea. Sad thing is that it died later on that evening. Not sure how or why. Maybe it was a female that just laid some eggs...

Friday - We saw a couple of Blue Jays outside. Those were pretty cool. And of course the billions of lizards and other random bugs. There are a TON of