Live from Animal Planet

Lately I feel like our home should be a show on Animal Planet.

It all started 2 weeks ago when Chris found a mouse in our garage. We call Terminex the next day and the nice man came out to the house to set traps. (Disclaimer to all who are coming to my house this holiday season..... We have NEVER found one in the house. Just in the garage). A few days later I was getting ready to leave for work and went to the garage only to find dead mice in the traps. YUCK! I made Chris get out of bed and pull my car out of the garage because there was no way I was going anywhere near those things. Need less to say I have refused to park in the garage for the last 2 weeks. I am sure the cold weather this week will force me to face my fears and return Lexie to the warmth of our garage.

Last week I was working from home and was looking out the back window when I witnessed a Hawk swoop down pick some small animal up and carry it away to be enjoyed for lunch. It was so cool that I interrupted the conference call I was on to tell everyone what I just witnessed.

Our house backs up to a farm so every night I listen to horses and donkeys make noise. The donkey has scared the hell out of me ever since my Brother In Law told me the reason it is making noise at night is to scare off the coyotes that we have living in our neighborhood. Thanks Mike! Did you know that the donkey is a natural enemy of coyotes? There really are some coyotes loving in the area around the hood. It doesn't help that we have the creek running behind out house where they get water and food.

So yesterday I am out in the front of our house and I notice a huge mound of dirt in the flower bed. I go to investigate more only to discover a GIANT hole that goes under the foundation of our house. I now know that we have an Armadillo that has burrowed under our house. No worries Terminex is coming on Monday to help us get rid of it.

So there it is your update from Animal Planet. Did I mention that we live in Suburbia? I sware I didn't get this much action when I lived on the family farm. Sad thing is the Terminex guy just gave us hos cell phone number so we can just call him directly now. What else can happen?