If it's not a toy it's fun

Our cat stinker loves to play with random things. We bought Stinker a cat toy the other day because we felt bad that all he has to play with is random stuff from around the house. The funny thing is that Stinker still would rather play with the things that arn't toys than play with his toy, he hardly touches the toy! He loves to play with an empty firework box, a ball of tin foil, wrappers ( and its funny because most the time I don't know where he is finding crinkly clear wrappers and stuff ), and his current favorite is the loofah that we keep in the shower. Its so funny because we have a sliding door on the shower and I often accidentally leave it open, so Stinker goes into the shower and gets it. He has done this several times now so I might as well just let him keep it. I don't want a loofah with cat hair all over it anyway!

neat creatures part 2

I forgot to mention two more neat creatures in my last post so I will tell you about them now. I have seen alot of bats this year! Just the other day Stephen was outside in the front yard in the dark, and he felt something fly past him, so he went inside and got the flashlight. He went back outside and turned the flaslight on and saw hundreds of bats swarming our yard! He then brought me outside with the flashlight off and asked me if I noticed anything different about our front yard, and I said no. Then he turned the flash light back on and I noticed all the bats! We stood out there with the flashlight on for a very very long time and watched the bats. The moths were attracted to our flash light so they would fly realy close to us and the bats would fly down and catch them. Alot of times the bats came less than six inches away from our body's, maybe even closer sometimes! Every time a bat would come close I would giggle my head off because of the thrilling, excited, and startled feeling that would rush through my body. I was probably keeping the neighbors awake, but Steve and I were having tons of fun with the bats!!!! It was a blast! Its one of the big highlights of this year, because it was just so cool!! There were so many bats that night because it had been cold for some days before and so the bugs were not out for a while. Once it started to warm up again the bugs finally came out and so the bats were eating them like crazy. I have also seen alot more owls this year than usuall. There has even been an owl that was sitting on top of Steve's parents hill and the sun hadn't even gone down yet. Another cool owl experiance is when Steve and I were driving in the car at night and we looked out the window and saw an owl flying along side us not that far away.

neat creatures

I have seen alot of cool and beautiful creatures this year so far. And hopefully Steve and I will be able to continue to live here in Washburnville so that we can continue to see these neat creatures and many others. So far this year I have seen the king snake which is covered in black, white, and red stripes, and is very rare (no worries it is different than the deadly coral snake that is very simalar looking ).
I have also seen lots of lizards, they are all over our yard. I saw one the other day that was
missing part of its tail. Steve, our friend Chris, and I went to a
lake on independance day and saw lots of
little tiny frogs ( it is very common to see toads in the evenings and at night but they are not the same thing as the little frogs we saw at the lake). I have seen some metallic blue wasps ( I actually don't know if they are wasps but they kind of
look like them) especially since moving to washburnville. When Steve and I were at Steve's parents house we saw a stick bug in his dads shop. At first Steve's dad ( Wayne ) actually thought the stick bug was a stick. some of my favorite creatures I have been seeing lately are actually the realy pretty moths. I have seen so many pretty moths this year! I have seen a beautiful pale green moth, moths that have black fuzzy heads with black leopard spots on their wings and pink inner wings, and I have seen moths with red fuzzy heads and brown spots on their wings ( these ones are larger than the ones with the black spots on their wings ). I have also seen lots of Scorpions this year, because me and Stephen's yard is covered in them. No, I would definetely rather not have any scorpions around, but I look on the bright side, at least we have a poisen that kills them well and they havn't been a problem for us, we have only had one in our bathroom and that is before we sprayed poisen. I am also happy that the scorpions around here are not deadly ( THANK HEAVEN FOR THAT ), it would only hurt realy realy realy realy bad if you got pinched by one and maybe make you ill for a while. They may be everywhere but they are not big enough of a problem that I even worry about Mandy and Stinker being outside. Mandy and Stinker havn't been stung bye one ( and if they have been stung I havn't noticed, but I think I would notice because they would probably be whining or crying or nursing the sting ) and I don't think they will unless they purposely try to piss one off, and I don't think they will. It is also a lucky thing that scorpions only come out at night, and sometimes Steve will go out at night with his black light and kill them. I do find it extremely extremely cool how they apear under a black light, they turn a fluorescent blue!!!!!!!

locked out

This morning I went outside in the backyard to feed Mandy and Stinker. After I had finished filling their dishes with food I went to open the door to go back inside the house, but the door wouldn't open! I had accidentally locked myself out of the house and all of the other doors were locked too! I felt so intensly panicked it was insane. I was locked outside with no key, no cell phone, and I was wearing my robe with no pajamas underneath , just underwear. I didn't know at all what to do, but I soon realized that I could just walk over to the neighbors and ask to use their phone. I walked over to the neighbors and rang the doorbell hoping they were home, and luckily they were and I hadn't woken them up, they were already awake having coffee. It wasn't to awkward or uncomfortable because they are a realy nice older couple and I had already met the husband. They were very nice and invited me in and I called Stephen who was at work ( and had arrived there not long ago) and asked him to come home and unlock the house for me. Steve came home and unlocked the door for me and then went back to work. It was all a very interesting way to start out my day!