Oh Happy Day!!

 

After three days of being off line I am back in the land of the internet. I am tired of people breaking things I can tell you. Friday afternoon, there was a man working on the phone lines. Next thing I know, no internet.
Ron had to spend 45 minutes trying to get it worked out, they even told us we didn't have service. Today there were three work trucks out here trying to fix what they broke on Friday. I feel like I just cringe inside when I see a work  truck pull up outside.

Its spring, and the skunks are back. I thought I would tell you about my little adventure last night. At 3:00 A.M.  I heard all of this noise on the porch outside my bedroom. When I work up my thought was there were burglars and why were they trying to steal our ash bucket. You know how you wake up and things just don't make sense? I kept waking up bit by bit, when I got the bright idea to grab the remote for the lights on the porch. That way I could sneak out and blast the porch with lights and scare off the burglars. Me and my bright ideas.

I did what I just said, only I went out my bedroom door, and what do I see to my absolute horror but this big ole skunk with his plumey black and white tail pointed directly at me. Ron had got out of bed by then and I almost ran over him trying to get back in the house, saying, there is a skunk right there on the porch. I watched the skunk as he raced off the porch, through the bars on the swimming pool fence and out the back way of the yard.

 

This is of course my fault. We have an 18 year old cat. She just won't sleep in the house anymore. She is this little hunter cat and she spends her days keeping us free of mice and rodents. I keep her bowl of food on the kids little Tyke table. That skunk had got up on the table, and they have such long claws that it was what I heard. I had forgot that skunks just love cat food. Lesson learned.

Our oldest daughter, Kessie and her family will be here on Wednesday. Our oldest grand daughter's birthday will be on Saturday and she wanted a big birthday with all of her cousins and aunts and uncles. She wanted to swim and roast hot dogs and make smores and have and ice cream birthday cake. Our oldest grandson, ( by three days) asked if we can have the fire pit and have smores every night that they are here. I of course told him yes. I am so excited. Kessie has never met Makenzie in person so I am looking forward to them getting to be friends. We should have really warm weather this week, so the kids will I imagine be in the pool. It will be so nice to get to hold the babies.

That is my week. I will get to do what I love best now, feed people. I miss having people around that eat.
I have so much food I want to fix.
I hope you have a lovely week. My lap overflows.

~Kim~

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

 ---Doug Larson