Wildlife

It's been a while since I posted, I know. We've been super busy this week. I've been working, of course, hubby has started back at school, the boys have been back at Mommaw's, and we've had church every evening this week. No time for blog, what with the leaving the house at 6:30 am and not returning until 9:30 pm most nights.

We've got some new additions to our family. We now have two gorgeous baby kittens living with us. One is black with some brown stripes and the other is orange. Big BK named them, the black one is called Banana, the other Butterscotch. The B names work with our overall naming theme but that is purely coincidental. The boys love them to death. I mean, they're probably going to kill them from loving them so much. Literally. Especially the baby boy. He really loves the kittens.

Last week we were outside, walking around in our yard, pushing the boys on their swings. Near the base of one of the trees in front was a freshly dug hole. We decided it was probably the neighbor's dog. "I" had told us that the dogs couldn't resist digging up dirt when they smelled it. We assumed it was them. Until the next day. Hubby looked out the window and we discovered the culprit. It was a woodpecker. I thought that was extremely unusual, a woodpecker digging a hole in the ground. And it was a pretty deep hole. I've tried but have never been able to get a picture of it working. My Big BK thought to help him out a little bit so he took his kid-sized shovel and dug all of the loose dirt out. Then he stuck his head in the hole. That kind of grossed me out as I assumed the woodpecker was actually digging for something beneath the ground.

This is what the woodpecker looked like.

Just kidding. This is really what he looked like.

In other wildlife news, when I got back from a training in West Liberty today, hubby said he'd had the scare of his life about half an hour earlier. Baby BK and the kittens had been in the yard playing. Hubby walked out and in front of our garage headed down our walk toward the steps was a large black snake. He locked the kid and the pets in the garage and proceeded to kill it with a shovel. We're not animal rights activists. PETA can contact me via this page. If it had been a different kind of snake I would have tried to make it into a belt or something. I figure that's the only real purpose they need to serve at my house, handbags, shoes and belts. Like I said, we're not animal rights activists.