At 5 o’dark this morning as I was going about getting ready for work and I went out to the garage for a minute. I opened the door a bit and heard a noise, like something falling. Now my garage is not even close to neat, not even close to kinda messy….it’s bad, so I suspected that a pile toppled over. I flipped the light on in the garage and heard a noise to my left on the rack. At eye level in the dog treat box, I heard a scratching noise and then again and finally a big fat mouse scurries up and over the vases. I let out a small scream or maybe more like a loud shriek. It really startled me. Big Yellow Dog was there in a instant, but I think it was more because there was a noise in the treat box. I think he’s probably still there waiting for his treat. I can just imagine that poor fat little mouse trying to get out of the bottom of the box and having to do it in several tries and then cowering next to the laundry detergent fervently hoping he wasn’t having a heart attack the little *&%$(&%. I’ve always worried that I would stick my hand in the treat box and feel something furry. About a year ago, a mouse died of gluttony in the dog food bag, so it’s a possiblity.
On a different note, my little Bug is learning so much by observation. I know this happens, but it always surprises me. Yesterday she picked up a wrapped up dirty diaper and ran to the kitchen and opened the cupboard where the garbage can is, and in the tiny space that the door opens because of the child latch, she managed to push the diaper into the garbage can. Go Bug! I love it. She is such a little mommy to Littlest, she tries to feed her, wash her face, and tries to put her socks on (after she takes them off). If Littlest starts coughing, Bug stops doing whatever she’s doing and looks around and says something unintelligble, I can’t figure out what it is yet, but it’s a shout of concern. The best thing she does is make Littlest giggle and laugh. The two of them go back and forth laughing and only Bug can make Littlest laugh really hard.
I made the mistake of looking at my retirement account out of curiosity. Bad move. The amount of money I’ve lost in my puny account would have been enough to get us out of the hole we’re in and then some. There is absolutely no comfort in knowing that others are in the same boat. I don’t even like boats
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