ARMADILLO TRAPPING

I WAS SEEING THE ARMADILLO ALMOST EVERY MORNING AND HE WAS SO CUTE, I JUST WANTED TO HUG HIM!!

ARMADILLOS ARE NOCTURNAL, AND EVERY MORNING BEFORE IT GOT VERY LIGHT I WOULD SEE HIM. FINALLY ONE MORNING I WAS ABLE TO FOLLOW HIM AND REALIZED HE WAS LIVING UNDER THE MANAGER'S HOUSE. THEY HAD COMPLAINED THEY COULD HEAR NOISES UNDER THEIR HOUSE. DAVID THREATENED TO POISON HIM, AND AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH ON THE COMPUTER, I ASKED DAVID TO WAIT TO SEE IF WE COULD TRAP HIM. THERE WERE SEVERAL LIVE TRAPS IN THE PARK.  WE FOUND HIS ENTRANCE HOLE AND SET UP THE TRAPS.

THE FIRST FEW NIGHTS HE WAS ABLE TO PUSH THE TRAPS AWAY FROM THE HOLE. SO, WE TRIED SOMETHING ELSE.

HE WAS ABLE TO OUTSMART US EVERYTIME!! FINALLY ONE MORNING I SAW HIM AND I FOLLOWED HIM BACK TO THE TRAPS.

HE WAS GOING TO DIG UNDER THE TRAPS, BUT HE KNEW I WAS THERE, AND HE DIDN'T LIKE IT....

SO, HE TOOK OFF RUNNING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE....WITH ME HOT ON HIS TRAIL..........

AND WENT DOWN A HOLE BY THE AIR CONDITIONER............

THAT'S WHEN WE REALIZED  HE MUST HAVE HOLES DUG ALL AROUND THE HOUSE AND WE WOULD PROBABLY NEVER BE ABLE TO TRAP HIM, HE HAD TOO MANY ESCAPE HATCHES. MUCH TO MY DISMAY DAVID SAID HE PUT POISON PEANUTS DOWN IN THE CRAWLSPACE. I DIDN'T SEE THE ARMADILLO FOR QUITE A FEW DAYS AND WAS PRETTY WELL CONVINCED HE WAS DEAD AND THEN..........ONE MORNING HERE HE COMES!!!!! I WAS SOOOOO HAPPY!!

MEANWHILE.......THE HANGING BASKETS WERE GROWING FAST!!

AND WE WERE UNDER SIEGE BY THE WOODPECKER AGAIN!! 

MARLEE WOULD SIT BY THE HOUR AND WATCH FOR THIS WOODPECKER AND THEN THEY WOULD JUST SIT AND STARE  AT EACH OTHER.

DARRELL BOUGHT A PLASTIC OWL AND TIED IT TO THE LADDER, THE WOODPECKER WOULD SIT ON THE OWL AND PECK THE HOUSE.

WE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR A FOLDING BIKE FOR QUITE A WHILE AND FINALLY FOUND ONE DARRELL LIKED AT SEARS. CAME HOME, PUT IT TOGETHER. 

IT SEEMS LIKE A REALLY GOOD BIKE AND IT FITS BOTH OF US!