<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Hi folks,<br>
<br>
Well, I hope you all enjoyed the warm weekend we just had. I had to
laugh when my daughter came running in the house the other night
saying, "Mom! Mom! There's a possum in the yard. I'm keeping it!
It's going to be my pet!" Of course that didn't happen. After
adopting the new hamster just a couple of weeks ago, I don't believe we
need another pet to tend to. It was getting a drink at our water tub
that I keep out for our herd of critters to use. (Some of them drink
out of it, and some of them swim in it.) I told her to go get the cat
carrier and we'd load it up and take it to the park where it would be
safe (and so would our chickens and eggs! As a matter of fact, the
next day, a little hen hatched out 2 babies in our henhouse and since
possums love to snack on chickens, it was pretty good timing to take
this one elsewhere! ) Evidently I was a little late on keeping the
possum safe, though. When we relocate one, I usually pick it up by the
tail, (with gloves on), and put it into our cat carrier for the trip to
Robber's Cave. This one surprised me though...no tail! Something had
already gotten hold of it, and all they got was a possum tail for their
trouble. We managed to get it into the carrier with a little nudge
from a shovel and some help from Nancy Tackett's son, Davidson, that's
a buddy of Destiny's and lives nearby and took off for the park. We
were trying to find a deserted spot to let the possum go, but there
kept being a car driving into everyplace we were going to go. We
finally found a spot across the road from where the car was, pulled
over and got out to unload the carrier, and here came the car. Turns
out it was park employee asking if we were going to be fishing. I
sheepishly told him that we were just relocating a possum. He
laughed and said he just wanted to warn us to watch for copperheads,
that there had been several reports of them being out that night. He
even loaned us his flashlight for our relocation process since my
daughter had touched mine and it died. So if you're out at the park
and see a no-tailed possum running around, I bet I know where it came
from! <br>
<font size="+2"><br>
Our menu for today includes (no possum):<br>
<br>
Goulash<br>
Scalloped potatoes<br>
<font color="#999900">Green beans</font><br>
Winter blend vegetables<br>
<font color="#ffcc33">Corn bread</font><br>
Rolls<br>
<br>
Our fast food is Hot Ham and Cheese and chips.<br>
<br>
And for dessert have a piece of summertime: <font color="#ff9966">Peach
Cobbler</font></font><br>
<br>
Come and get it!<br>
<br>
Rhoda <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
</body>
</html>