Holy Bats in my Attic, Batman!

Ewww! As the good hubby was scrounging in the attic this morning, he hollers "There are about 20 bats up here!" Of course I HAVE to climb the ladder to see for myself. Dang my mono-vision contacts and their less than great distance vision. I saw a 'mass of darkness' in the eves, and said, "Are you sure that isn't a bunch of leaves?" But then it writhed. Yes, I believe that would be the correct word.Writhed. Anyway, we quickly got the heck out of there and closed the hatch.

Did I mention that about three weeks ago, my pre-mission son (who lives at home)calls his dad on his cell phone at 2:00 am with this dialog....

"Dad? Duuuuude...there is a bat in my bedroom!"

Apparently it came in when he got in that evening, nestling itself on the floor,in the doorway of his room. He said he walked in and out of there several times that evening, until he got ready to hit the hay.(I guess ESPN gets boring at 2:00am.) Then he turned on the light for the first time that night, only to see what he thought was a 'leaf' on the floor. (See we have a theme here) So he pokes at it with his handy dandy Boy Scout walking staff, and it hissed at him. Thank goodness we had him clean his room the day before, or it would have taken up residence in the endless pile of polo shirts, breeding and no doubt, making his room a true belfry. So the trusty Dad went downstairs to, what we now fondly call "the Batcave" and disposed of the little beastie.

But it looks like his momma sent a posse out to look for him....

BTW, that is not a picture of my hubby capturing the minion of darkness. He actually nabbed it in a Food Lion bag and...well, it's face could show up on a milk carton in a neighborhood near you.

Coming To The Dark Side

No not to Harry Potter, or Harry Pooter as we say in this household. I have gotten over ten pages done in my son, the most revered Elder Keith's scrapbook. There are no witty sayings or cute little cut out sticker thingies either. It was hard enough just figuring out who was in the picture and where the pictures were taken. He didn't put a date on any of them. So if the information is inaccurate, he can tell me, and as long as flames don't come flying out of my mouth due to indignation, we should all be peachy.

Did I mention he is coming home in 20 days? Hey, at least I kept all the pictures together in a gallon sized freezer bag. If anyone tells me "Those aren't acid free!" they might want to duck. Here comes the fire baby!

Now if I could learn from my procrastination with the next Elder Keith...aka the Spud Stud.(He's going to Idaho, get it...)

Anyway, I am rather pleased with myself because I have seen a HP movie and made major headway on a scrapbook.

Aren't a the little mainstreamer...



The above handsome Elder will be available August 16th. Applicants must be willing to live in NC and know how to 'go with the flow'. They must also submit to the Keith family's 'gauntlet of fire' aka, spend an evening with Isaac and live to tell the tale.

He does look kind of shiny, I don't remember his chin being so round...

My First Time

We all remember our first time. It is usually not so great, so y'all will have to be kind and understanding if I am clumsy, awkward and it ends too soon.

This past week I have been involved in an outdoor pageant. No not the beauty kind! It was what one would call a religious, historical pageant. Here is my first time in posting a website link...http://raleighpageant.org/ ...of course I didn't get it to underline, but remember this is my first time...

Anyway, I played the part of Emma Smith. This is because my hubby always plays Joseph and I am a jealous thang that doesn't like the idea of someone else grieving over my man's pseudo-dead remains. I was perfect for the part. Emma was tall, dark and slender. I am short, blonde and chubby. I did get to wear an awesome dark wig like the one pictured...that I couldn't figure out how to post below this paragraph! (I'm getting a little testy now...)

It's a fab look and the curls really bounce around when you walk. I think I would wear it everyday, but in the 100+ degree heat and high humidity that we were performing in, it kind of took the fun out of it.

I also played a doomed Nephite that gets speared after trying to save my son from the enemy. That's OK, Mormon got hacked to death too.

It was a long week, but despite the fact that I almost died of heat exhaustion, I would do it again next year.

Not too sure about the wig and crinoline though...