Ok, so I guess I'll write another post now. :D
So we've had quite the animal adventure this summer. Most especially the last week. As you may know, we've had a skunk living under our house. Well, my dad caught it in a trap and took it far far away. But that night, there was ANOTHER one!! Well my brother took his shotgun and shot it once it came out from under our house. (It made our entire house reek quite often, though I still think he should've just taken it to the mountains.) Well we went a few more days, thinking we were now skunk free. Nope! I have this big hole in my bedroom wall hidden behind my mirror where a heater used to be, and one day I noticed the most awful smell coming from behind my mirror. Then that night I could hear animals in the wall. So, my brother got his flashlight to look at the little hole under our house. There he could see a big skunk with several baby skunks. Now we couldn't just go under there and get them out, because they were under the old part of the house where there's no way to get under there. Unless you're a skunk. So, my dad set the trap once again. He caught my cat. Then he caught the big skunk. He took it to the river bottoms, and tried to drown it in the trap. Well the metal trap didn't sink so the lid just floated off and the skunk swam away. Unfortunately for it, however, he caught it again and this time he shot it :( Poor momma skunk! Then we set the trap once again. And it took a few days before we got any results. In the meantime, I'd been sleeping either in my mom's room or on the couch, since it seems the skunk's new favorite spot was right under my room. BLECK!!!! But yesterday my mom noticed that the trap door was closed. We peeked in, and there were 2 baby skunks! They were soooooooooooooo cute!! So my mom and I took the trap to the riverbottoms to let them go. Well we were super paranoid that they would spray us, so we were very cautious. We left the trap on the road facing the trees, so we could run away fast. Well I yanked the door off, and turned and ran.... And the skunks just sat there. They didn't want to leave the trap! This was not going according to plan. So we tried propping it up on a rock, hoping they would just kind of slide out. That didn't work either. So then my mom got brave and went to dump them out. She thought one was dead for some reason, apparently she didn't see it ever moving. So she dumped the one out, and then ran from it as fast as she could with the trap so it didn't spray her. I could see the door of the trap she was running with, and the other one was trying to climb out!! So I yelled, and mom hurried and screamed and dumped the other one out on the road. We then hid in our car watching them to make sure they'd be okay. They were. They werer probably the cutest little animals i've ever seen! But since then we've covered the hole, and I was able to enjoy a nice peaceful night's sleep in my own room last night. :D Yay!!
Also this week, I have come upon the knowledge that there are fireflies in Boneta!!!!!! What!?!? I have only seen one firefly in my entire life. In all 19 years of living in Boneta, ONE firefly! That's all my mom's seen too, and neither of my brothers have seen any in Utah period. Well my mom and brother went walking with my grandma the other day. It was kinda late, so it was dark when they were walking home. I was just sitting at home, when I could suddenly heard my mom yelling my name from outside. We grabbed our bikes and headed up the road. Apparently they saw a bunch of fireflies in a field, and my mom ran the 3/4 mile home to get me. She thought they might be gone soon, like the ONE we saw that ONE time. So we hurried back, and it was so awesome! There were thousands of fireflies in the fields! They were so pretty, and we were all amazed and mesmerized. We didn't know if they'd ever come back, so we went back to get my dad. WELL! Apparently he sees fireflies out in the field all the time, and he wasn't impressed at all. PTHTHt. Also my neighbors have seen them lots of times before as well. I don't understand!! My family has lived in that house for at least 20 years, and no one has ever seen them except my dad, and he never thought to mention it. We went back for several nights after that to look at them. So it was pretty exciting!
Work is going well. This morning I was thinking about all the amusing stories I have from work, but at this second I can't think of a single one.... So never mind. Maybe another time I'll share. I'm enjoying being home. I love the country in the summer. Everything is green, flowers are blooming, hay is growing in the fields, and the fresh air smells amazing. The sunsets are beautiful, and the clouds look SO awesome and different every single day. While I could never live here the rest of my life, I've been very grateful that I have such a beautiful place to call home.
Enough about me! Soo, bye!
Shay
