Drama

I have been having a nice relaxing weekend. No big plans or pressing tasks. I was watching a movie when lo and behold a SHREW ran across my living room floor. "What are you doing in here??" I shrieked. I took a deep breath, paused my movie, and grabbed a tupperware with a large diameter to aid in capture and tracked the sucker down. Luckily he was in my bathroom, the room with the least amount of clutter and a door. I chased him around the toilet a few times and finally capped him, so to speak. I had to go outside for a breather at this point as I was sweating and my heart was pounding. I went back in to complete the mission, almost allowing it to escape, twice. I am embarrassed, but will admit, I did scream like a girl once when this happened. I took the little guy out to the chickens, thinking maybe they would take care of him for me. Boy did they ever! The shrew was not on the ground for more than two seconds before a black and white chicken was upon it. I was both laughing and horrified by this. The chicken grabbed the shrew and ran with it (as chickens commonly do with something good to keep the others from taking it), I could hear the shrew squeaking as the chicken began to pummel it back and forth. I do feel a little bad, but it's nice to know that that shrew will not be visiting me again. Oh, education for today: Shrews are not rodents, nor are they even closely related. They are in a different family, they have one more extra toe than rodents, and their teeth do not grow forever as rodents do. They have a poisonous bite, and my mom reminded me our cat would catch them but never eat them. I hope I didn't kill that chicken.



In other news, I was at Fred Meyer yesterday and they had all this Easter candy on sale. I was kind of feeling like I had missed Easter this year. Probably because I did, and I was regretting I hadn't had one of these:

Every year when I was little I got one of these "Milk Flavored" bunnies in my Easter basket. So I got one for .54 cents. I ate so much of it I made myself sick yesterday and finally had to throw the feet out so I wouldn't eat that too! I'm probably good on milk flavored rabbits for at least 2 years.