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Charlie, or should I say Charles Lazarus Cole gave us quite a scare Monday morning. He was cold and stiff as a board and his eyes were sunken in. We were all convinced he had died in the night. A few hours later I get this photo from Matt, Charlie back from the dead up and about looking cheeky. 

2023 week six

After a week off of school, Theo decided to throw up Sunday night! So he had to stay home on Monday. After a slow morning he just played outside by himself.

Clearly not ill. 

On Tuesday V kicked the ground hard at karate. We taped up her bleeding toe and she hobbled around all week. On Friday I took her to the ER for an x-ray. Luckily, she has no broken bones in her foot. On the way home we saw a driveway with six little freshly baked cat loaves. We had to stop and say hello. 

Our new side yard is now slowly being prepared for a garden shed. While Matt was digging holes for posts, I was cleaning the chicken coop. I was refreshing their nesting boxes with pine shavings when I noticed there was a hole in the side of the pine shavings bag. I freaked out and sure enough an enormous rat ran out of it! I screamed and V screamed and Matt came running with his pellet gun. Unfortunately he wasn't fast enough and it got away. We set out five traps that night and caught three rats. I spent all day Sunday dismantling the flooring of the coop. Another rat made an appearance. Now it is just rodent wire with bare ground underneath. I also had to redo their nesting boxes and roost. Then we planted "so called" rodent repellent plants all around the coop. I will never complain about planting more rosemary, oregano, mint, lavender, sage and catnip. If it doesn't keep the rodents away it will at least smell nice and be edible. And you're welcome for not posting the three photos of rats in traps that V took. 

Boy got to go on a special trip just with Mama and Papa to Central Market and In-N-Out for dinner.

And because he ate this gummy bear on the way to dinner he had a tummy ache and couldn't eat the hamburger he ordered. We figured V had eaten at her cousins house so tossed it. Turns out he had a gummy bear burp and was hungry 20 minutes later and V didn't eat, so both of them cried. V said the next morning, "And this is why you should never EVER throw away a hamburger."  

Morning monopoly sans Mama. I was outside battling rats. 

Quotes:

Theo

Grabbing my calf, "Imagine if pigs had this part on them. Mmmm it would be so juicy and good."