If I haven't told all of my bloggy friends yet...my parents in law live in my house. They moved in last June and I think are planning on staying forever. So in my house there is 4 adults, 2 kids, a dog....now outside my house I have a small forest (well OK not really a forest just a shit load of woodland creatures. The creatures have not always lived been there that is the work of my father in law we will call him Papa since that is what my babies call him. Papa doesn't work or have any hobbies (well does drinking a 1/2 pint of cheap vodka like a bottle of water a hobby?) but he does like to feed the neighborhood animals. Every morning he gets up, grabs his vodka and his pack of smokes and goes outside to put out peanuts for the squirrels and chipmunks and bird feed for of coarse the birds. Some mornings when I walk outside for my morning smoke and caffeine fix it is nice....I see cardinals, blue jays, a couple of baby squirrels etc. On other days it's scary and I have to go out to the front of the house. The other day I counted and had 13 squirrels, 3 chipmunks, 12 morning doves, countless sparrows....it was like the Albert Hitchcock movie "The Birds". If he doesn't get up on time or god forbid my parents in law are out of town, we have a woodland creature riot. They come up to our windows and peer in...they bark and chirp at my dog when she goes out and does her business etc. Sometimes I like to make believe that I am Snow White and my kids are the dwarfs, maybe the woodland creatures will help me clean the house.....yeah right...they come and poop on my deck and die in my pool. It makes the old man happy....and that is why I tolerate it...oh what we do for love.
2 comments:
I was giggling about the pretending-they-were-your-woodland-friends thing until you got to the part about dying in the pool. That kind of mars the picture, doesn't it? :P
You are a saint. I'd be losing my mind there.
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