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For the Love of Chicken

Last night we had a scorpion in the house. Blonde Girl had reported seeing a bug in the house.
We never have bugs in the house. And, frankly the girls freak out over a fly in the house. But,
there was a critter in the house. A scorpion! Love Man got it and put in down the garbage disposal and ground it up. He did. He has never seen one before. The dogs tried to assist, but
he shooed them away. A bite would kill them or a very, small child. It would just cause
excruciating pain if it bit one of our girls.

We have them at preschool in amber for teaching purposes and have even had one in our room when the preschoolers were there. My partner jumped on it. I asked her from across the room, "are you wearing sneakers?". She knew immediately what I was taking about and stomped on it in a flying leap. We were very in tune, Mrs. A. and I. The directors asked "was it dead or alive?" We didn't wait long enough to find out. No preschoolers were injured during this stunt, except for the feelings of one when I told him to play in another spot in the room.

Love Man enjoys leaving the doors open sans screen. So, it probably wondered in. It was in our entry way near the door. We have had beautiful, mild weather.

But, our theory is this. The damn chickens next door are driving the scorpions over here.
I would even go as far to say the snake was working doubly hard on the scorpions and spiders
and was captured by dos chihuahuas. This is the fault of those stupid, stupid chickens.

A Hub of Activity

We are busy, busy, busy. The girls are going here and there. Miss Brunette helped with VBS today. She needs 24 service hours for part of her three year confirmation classes. Blonde Girl
has gone for an early sleepover. Love Man met a friend for lunch. I have been running the girls around and have the dryer guy and palm tree trimmer here. The dogs are doing there usual, sleeping most of the day. They did bark while the dryer guy was here. They hate repair people.

Lost in Transition

It looks very simple. But, I wear this cropped cardigan all of the time. And, I must have given it to Good Will. I have looked in every closet. Fortunately I found it online and on clearance.

It needs to arrive, I have places to go. Phoenix air conditioning in stores, restaurants, churches,

schools, etc. is super cold. I carry a cardy or denim jacket with me at all times, especially at night.

Love Man also lost his favorite U of Montana shirt. Hopefully it is accidentally in the dryer.

I still have two baskets of drying left to do. You can not use your washer/dyer and other major

energy using appliances such as dish washers between 9:00 am - 9:00 pm if you want the best electricity rate with APS. It takes some getting used to. The weekends are 24 hours a day. Thank God!

My dryer is also not working very well. It is under our home warranty and I have put in a request for service. I may have died from overuse.

Basically Basil

This is my basil of which we are over-run. It is pretty, though. I am still doing laundry. Every towel in the house was used at the party. Love Man brought a ton of dirty clothes from CdA.
Miss G said, "like coming home from college". That is about right. I used to bring tons and tons
of clothes home. I could go a long time without doing laundry and I did.

Miss Brunette is loving volley-ball camp. According to her, she rocks it. So there you go.
Blonde Girl can not wait until tennis starts. They were interviewed yesterday about Life Guard
Discovery. I didn't know there was an interview process. So, we are waiting to hear from this
child who interviewed them.

Do you notice how young people are? The police men who came to our house after the heist
looked about 12. I wondered if their mothers liked them protecting Phoenix as they were doing.

The Sunny Side of the Street

Love Man has mentioned several times that the house seems so loud. Well it is. We are loud people, I come from loud genes. I am a talker. The girls are talkers. We also have one room with carpet and the rest is Mexican tile.

And, yesterday we had two extra kids in the house. There will 6 people in the house and

two dogs. I also should mention the fish, they were here.

So, I am sure it is loud for someone who has lived alone in the middle of no where. Actually, it was a very good area. But, in was not in town. No neighbors to hear. A long driveway. It backed up to woods.

His extras were turkeys. LM has taken a lot of photos of them. Front views. Side views. Those turkeys seemed to pose like they were models.

Back in the House

Love Man is back to stay. He arrived with a car full of stuff. We have continued to purge our house and have taken three loads of unwanted, yet fabulous, junk to Good Will. They love us.
We have pretty much gotten him put back into the house. There is still a box of toiletries in the bathroom to deal with and a box of work in the office. We cleaned out the garage so we can park TWO cars in it. All of you people out there with a double garage and only room for a single vehicle, my advice to you is to get busy!