Welcome to the wild kingdom

Living in the country always leads to interesting encounters. I've seen bobcats, coyotes, deer, turkeys, skunks, snakes, wild hogs, and many other creatures around our house. Once when Alicia came to visit, we had a run-in with a skunk. She almost got sprayed and never even saw the skunk.

This summer we have had LOTS of encounters with creatures. I've discovered that yelling at a skunk is more effective at getting it out of the backyard than throwing rocks at it. I've learned that raccoons will attack dogs--poor Queso. I've learned that if you don't properly seal holes for plumbing lines, snakes like to come inside.

This isn't the actual snake, but about a week after Ryndon was born my Mom and I found a 3 foot snake curled up on the base of our shower. It was just a common rat snake, but no snake should be in the house.

A couple weeks later, I woke Ty up about 5 a.m. trying to kill a spider on the ceiling. Needless to say, the spider lived (not sure where he got knocked to). I didn't get the diaper wipe fully on him before he dropped a little. I screamed and flailed my arms. Ty woke up. I had moved Ryndon to the end of the bed so he was safe. Unfortunately, I never found/killed the spider. Even worse, Ty wouldn't let us go sleep in the other bed. I HATE spiders.