Adventures with Wildlife..

Last night as Titan Boy and I were closing up to head to bed we noticed a VERY LARGE furry critter in our garage! We have a couple of stray cats that eat in our garage but this WAS NOT a cat! It was a HUGE RACCOON! And it was not scared of us or anything we did to try and "shoo" it away! It just stood there looking at us.

This reminded me of an encounter Titan Boy had with another HUGE RACCOON a few years ago...

Same type situation, late at night, HUGE RACCOON in the garage...Titan Boy went out to feed the cats (the strays have been here awhile) and noticed our friend "Rocky" eating the cat and dog food right out of the bag. He tried "shooing" it away but nothing seemed to run it off. Then Titan Boy got a great idea! We had some leftover "snap pops" from a birthday party...you know those little white things that "pop" when you throw them on the ground? SO he grabbed a box and decided to throw them at the raccoon.

The raccon just sat there, staring at him...then the funniest thing happened! As Titan Boy is throwing them at him the raccoon starts "batting" them back at Titan Boy!!!! After half the box, Titan Boy gives up and lets "Rocky" eat us out of house and home! I am sure he went and got all his raccoon friends and they ended up eating all the pet food in the garage, laughing at us the whole time!

I know by feeding the cats in the garage this is not that suprising ( random wildlife) but YUCK! I hate rodents of any kind and I consider a raccoon a rodent! I had the "heeveejeevees" all night thinking about that furry critter!!

Remind me later to tell you about Titan Boy and the "dead" bunny, that one is the best!

Wildlife loves me!
Tahoe Girl

Thank you pollen!

I have been taking allergy medicine and cold medicine and it is making me MEAN!

I have been trying (not successfully) to not take it out on my hubby and children, so instead I am taking it out on the crap in this house!

So far today I have cleaned out the laundry room and all the neglected kitchen cabinets. This place is soo gross! I wont even tell you what I found under the stove drawer...

Off to run the dishwasher again...
Tahoe Girl

It's the little things...

Sometimes it is just the little things that mean the most...

...a hug from my oldest DURING a baseball game, he didn't even care that everyone saw it!

...a text from Titan Boy just checkin to see how my day was going.

...a quick lunch with a friend just to catch up for fifteen minutes (life can be soo busy!)

...the sunshine finally warming things up

Tahoe Girl

Inquiring Minds....

With three kids there is rarely a question presented to me that I have not answered before in some fashion...you know the ones...why is the sky blue, etc etc. That is until last night, the littlest Tahoe threw me a curve ball with this one...


TT: Where does poop live?

TG: Um, what? Do you mean before or after it comes out?

TT: After it comes out, where does it live?

TG: Well, we flush it down the potty and then it goes to a water treatment plant.

TT: Oh, then what do they do with it? Cause it has to live somewhere!

TG: Well, the clean the water and then use it for other things.

TT: Do they use soap to wash it?

TG: Yes, strong soap, VERY strong soap.

TT: Oh ok, can we go visit my poop after they wash it?

At this point I exited the bathroom. How do you tell a 3 yr old you cannot go visit his poop? He already has a hard enough time "letting it go" and I don't want to scar him for life!

This one is gonna be a challenge...
Tahoe Girl

Time to confess...

Ok, some of you are going to think I am crazy or a whiny b*itch but I have to confess nonetheless.

My entire life I have heard "Your so skinny" "If I was your size I would wear a bikini everyday" "You must have good genes" etc etc etc etc

SO i have spent the last few years taking advantage of that situation and ladies it has finally caught up with me.

Lately I have realized that my "comfy" jeans are tight and uncomfy. My muffin top has become a "Big Top Cupcake" top! and well there is no chance in hell I am even thinking about bathing suits anytime soon. The truth is I have gained SEVEN pounds in FIVE weeks! SERIOUSLY!

I am also extremely out of shape and am embarrassed to what extreme this has gotten to! I have finally looked my self in the mirror and decided....

IT'S TIME TO GET OFF MY ASS AND DO SOMETHING!!

So far I have given up Starbucks (1 week in) minimized the amount of Cokes I drink (their stock might drop due to this) started taking vitamins and dragged the treadmill out of storage! (Tonight I ran/walked two miles and didnt keel over, yeah me!)

Now don't go sending me comments with extreme ideas cause those are not gonna happen, I like carbs and sugar and I am still gonna eat them BUT not the same way I used to. I am not gonna swill 800 calories each morning in my coffee (yes I said 800 CALORIES IN MY COFFEE!!!!) and I am gonna get moving!

SO wish me luck and I hope I am not too grumpy while I begin this trek. I have always taken "skinny" for granted and just cause people are a size 6 doesn't mean they are healthy!

Soon to be fitter,
Tahoe Girl

Just one more....

UPDATED TEN MINUTES LATER!!!!!!

OK I got my 100 so just read the below post and vote for your choice of reward!!!!!

I just need ONE MORE FOLLOWER to reach 100!


So I am going to offer a bribe reward to get me there...

If  I reach 100 followers I will do one of the following...
1. write 100 quirky things about me that you don't know
2. Let Titan Boy be guest blogger for a day
3. Post an obnoxious picture from my youth in a tacky outfit that I am sure my mother picked out
4. Something y'all suggest!

Pick one of the above and leave it as a comment! Then, when I reach 100 followers, I will do whatever y'all choose.

So what's it gonna be?
Tahoe Girl

TMI

I wont tell you the SUPER GROSS thing I had to do tonight, but I will say, that if i didn't love my dogs (one dog inparticular) he would be hunched over in pain and draggin ass everywhere...

OMG people, these damn dogs make me do grosser s**t than my kids do!

oh and his brother has pulmonary ademia, which means i have to give him lacix everyday which will make him PEE MORE IN MY HOUSE!

Never did I think about these things 14 years ago when I adopted the two little puff balls.They were my first children and now they are my first senior citizens to care for! They are 85+ years old in people years and turns out there is not an old folks home for dogs....

Tahoe Girl