The boys were both sleeping. Scott was down at the shed. Katie and I were in the family room together. Katie had created a "scene" on an upside down tote and was just in the midst of a play. We had made several yarn dolls the other morning with the boys, they each made one and Katie decided to make a whole family. Her play was about a young girl named Daisy who walked out into the forest one day and decided to live on her own. After some time though, she decided she wanted to come home to her family. Anyway, in the midst of this play, Utah, the dog, is over in the corner rummaging around. There is a couch over there as well as several totes in the corner. She had her face all the way stuck back in there and suddenly heard her yelp. I know right then and there, there was something back there. I got the flashlight and looked under the couch to discover a gopher!! Now remember last night when I was talking about how great it was to leave the screen door open because of all the fresh air and no bugs...well, maybe that is not so great of an idea. But more than likely, it got in through the back door which does not seem to close all the way shut.
So, I have got the gopher in the spotlight of the flashlight and am keeping a close eye on it because there is no way I am going to bed with a rodent roaming around the house!! So, Katie is running around trying to find something to catch it with and I finally just told her to go out on the deck, call Scott and tell him we need some help here. He just could hardly believe it. The first thing he asked her was, "It's alive!?"
So he comes up and moves the couch but by now the gopher is IN the couch and we are going to have to tip the whole thing. Scott told Katie to run downstairs and get the kittens. Yes, all three of them! Katie comes running up the stairs with all of them in a bundle and sets them down over by the couch. She was spinning circles and saying, "I am kinda scared about this." and the next thing we know she is on the pool table!
The kittens were worthless, but I must say that they did catch another mouse in the mudroom last night and the gopher was about their same size! So, we are calling to the dog to attack the darn thing. It comes running out across the room and Utah gets it. One kitten was just sitting there, the other two batted it around a bit, but it was Utah who was our real hero tonight!
That is one thing I am eager to get home to is NOT having to share our living space with mice and obviously other rodents. We can even hear them at night racing back and forth across the ceiling! It sounds like a nightly relay race, God knows how many mice are here!
The other things I am looking forward to is having a washing machine at our house and being able to just drink some water from the tap, Friday fish, having the kids be able to soak in the tub, a big refrigerator and the driveway. The kids are eager to ride their bikes again. Also family and friends.
We shared a great afternoon together at the pool. I would have to say that this was the day Katie learned to swim without her life jacket. Would I trust her in over her head without one? No, but she was gaining a lot of confidence and really enjoying it. After a while, she was like a mermaid, just diving down into the water. Ben overcame his fear of jumping in from the edge of the pool. He would flop himself in and come up laughing saying, "Wath dis Hunta? I doing a bellyfop."
Then we rushed home, changed and headed off to a play, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The show was put on in Fountain Green which is the closest town. It has about 500 people in it, one gas station, and one little convenient store which is not so convenient because the shelves are almost totally empty, but it IS a great place to buy candy! I love that despite that there is nothing there, there IS a community theater. The kids were so good and the play was wonderful. The woman doing the introduction got all choked up during it and I was touched to hear how much time and effort went into everything and everyone's heart was really in it. There were children, youth and adults. There was a dinner afterwards which was a fund raiser for the theater. It was great food and the kids ate great. I was glad to not have to cook and do the dishes. Oh, that is another thing I miss, the convenience of a dishwasher! How simple is that!!!
We are planning on heading out tomorrow night after dinner. Wish for our safe journey home and we are looking forward to seeing all our family and friends. Love to all and we just cannot wait to get home and see everyone. Katie just said that she cannot wait to get home and that we have spent the right amount of time here. She is staying up late tonight to hopefully see a shooting star. Scott and I saw the same shooting star the other night, it was awesome, bright and truly shooting through the night's sky and it just kept on going!! It was the night of our anniversary and it was as though the powers that be were just giving us this gift of knowledge that we are right where we ought to be. It was beautiful and a moment I will treasure with my husband for a long time to come.
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