I love country living and the fall season. All the beautiful colors, the rustling of leaves, wildlife preparing for winter. My pets leaving me gifts well, that parts usually gross but sometimes.....well...lets just say it can be a bit interesting.
Have you ever heard a song and it just stayed with ya? By now, I reckon, most of you all can tell that I like to laugh and enjoy humorous stuff and stories. Ray Stevens have sung a many a song that I have listened to time and time again. In fact, My children and I will sit, laugh, and cut up about many of his songs. Of course, a couple of our favorites are the Streak and the Mississippi Squirrel revival. If you have never heard them by all means...STOP whatever you are doing right now, seriously, just stop, head on over to YouTube look it up, and take ya a gander. Get ready to laugh out loud, maybe even a few snorts if you be one of those snorting folks. Lol. Then of course head back over here and finish this story.)
Anywho, as I was saying before I veered off into left field, those songs are classics and are able to bring ya a few good laughs. My youngest daughter and I were driving home from the grocery and talking about the song Mississippi Squirrel (really need to listen to this song if you haven't) and we laughing about it. I'm gonna be paraphrasing a bit but the song talks about a squirrel (shocker!!) that Ray Stevens and his good buddy Hugh got. They took it to church. It got loose. Harvey had coveralls on, it went up Harvey’s coveralls, some thought he had religion, others a demon, Old Harvey thought he had a weed eater loose in his drawers. Harvey jumps up and yells "Somethings got a hold of me"...and many more antics with that crazy squirrel in that song. Funny stuff.
We pull up the lyrics and read through them. Driving up the driveway, laughing and having a good old time. My husband meets us in the yard to first, to see if we needed help with the groceries then to tell us that our cat brought us in another gift inside. Our cat had gotten into a bad habit of bringing dead animals into MY home. Yeah, not too happy about that. I said, "Oh no, is it in the hallway?" Which, has been her usually deposit spot of late. He said No, it's ALIVE!! WHAT!!!! My husband then said its a ground squirrel and its alive in the house!!!!. By this point, my daughter and I were in tears laughing. My daughter was yelling don't hurt him my good buddy Hugh got it for me.
I finished unloading the groceries; However, by the time I came back into the living room my handsome big strong husband had a broom and dustpan in his hands, head down, looking on the floor with the recliner pulled into the middle of the room saying it went behind the computer desk. I pulled out the computer desk and everything around it then this small flash of fur zoomed by towards the couch. I heard my daughter yell it went this way. So, I stood there in the kitchen doorway stomping trying to prevent/deter that critter from coming towards the kitchen. All the while, my husband and daughter, were running circles pulling and pushing furniture here and there, yelling its here, it went this way, with that handy dandy broom and dustpan. During all this commotion, my cat was running around behind them, under the legs, and between them trying to catch her new "friend " before they did. Oh, what sight we were.
I don't think the squirrel was having quite as much fun in that room as we were, cause he/she ( never did really did get a good enough view to determine one way or the other so lets just say he) decided to head to the kitchen. My stomping didn't seemed to bother him at the least cause he ran right between my legs going just as fast as his little tiny feet could go.
Now, for all some of you folks that don't know me very well, I generally where skirts, especially long denim skirts (they're my fav). So, you necessarily can't see my legs but the bottom of my skirt and my shoes. So imagine this, here goes this squirrel between my legs and I hear my husband say to my daughter, "I think it went up her legs"..lol..okay, okay.., at this instant I remembered that song, ..you know I had to, I yelled, "Something's got hold of me! "..LOL...My daughter gets it and is laughing; I'm laughing so hard that we're crying. My husband looks a bit concerned but figures if we're laughing then it's okay. He just wants this crazy squirrel outside, like NOW.
I tell my husband I think the squirrel is behind the fridge. My daughter looks in the laundry room which right off the kitchen and finds it. My husband then said, "I thought it went up your legs." I said, "no, it didn't go up my legs"..lol. My daughter was having fun with the squirrel in the laundry room. She cornered it and somehow that squirrel managed to get into one of those huge bags of dog food and couldn't get out. My daughter carried that dogfood bag outside and deposited that poor fellow out. He escaped to tell the tale for another day. I can now say, let me tell you about the time, that half crazed ground squirrel.....lol.
Ahh, I really do love the country life. So relaxing. Sometimes.
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