Death of the Naughty Squirrel

So, this morning I woke to a loud explosion at 6:30 AM. It sounded like a car got blown up or something and the power for the whole neighborhood went out. I went outside to see whose house or car was blown up and everyone in the neighborhood was on their front porch looking around to see what happened. I couldn't find anything and there is only so far I will wander outside in my fuzzy pink bathrobe, so I called the power company to let them know power was out. Of course I put ALL of my scrubs for work in the washer last night knowing I could dry them before work because, hey, Wednesday is my day to sleep later. When the power guys came out, the fuses in the box in front of our house were blown out because the tranformer by our trees exploded. A squirrel got in the transformer somehow this morning. The little squirrel was dying amongst the lavendar and his friend was sitting in the hazelnut tree chattering very sadly. Luckily the power was back on in time for me to dry clothes to go to work!

The ducks are finally starting to earn their keep. They started laying eggs yesterday! Cheri and Brian are afraid of trying the eggs, but I hear they taste just like chicken :-)

Happy 1st Birthday, Damien!
July 24th was Damien's first birthday. Andrea came over on Sunday and we had a great time. We all went to church together and had cake and ice cream at my house. When Damien was eating cake, he just kept say, "Mmm". I think he might like cake!

Look what Brian brought home! Brian has a friend at work who has acres of raspberries and lets people come pick them for free :-) Brian made two pies with them. They're still way too hot to cut yet, but I'm sure they'll be good!

Happy 4th of July!
Cheri and Brian set out on the 4th to barter with the fireworks stands. They managed to get quite a few good fireworks and mortars for not too much money. We also had a fire going outside and did S'mores on the patio. Then Brian took off with his burn cream to Josh's house. Josh burned himself with fireworks (big surprise!). Cheri and I hung out with the neighbors for a while since they bought about $650 worth of fireworks. The show in our neighborhood was amazing!

Poor, sad Cheri! She just got her wisdom teeth out today. It took Valium to get her in the chair, nitrous and Diazipam to keep her in the chair. It still didn't stop the crying when the needle came out! But hey, she made it and will spend the weekend healing.