I killed some plants

This experience once again made me question if I was really ready for the house that we bought. I know, it is a little late to be learning these lessons, but I guess it will make it easier to move in some day. This brings me to another point. Unfortunately for our tenants they did not qualify for their mortgage by the time the got to closing. Due to rising interest rates and presumably poor credit, they now need to search for a new house. We decided to allow them to stay in our house for another month. This actually helps us out because I will be out of town 4 out of the 5 weeks in September Once again, if you planned a trip to stay at our new house you will need to make other arrangements, but on the other hand, if you just want to hang out with Andrea this might be a great time! Therefore, we will move in the first weekend of October and it could not be any sooner we are so excited.

I had one of these in my garage...

Later in the evening, I came home and opened up the garage. I was about to walk in it when I saw an armadillo walking between the cars in the garage. So when I thought I saw the lizard slithering into the garage it was actually the tail of an armadillo. It totally freaked me out. The armadillo was not huge, but it was large enough to make me very nervous about walking into the garage. So I stood there in the dark of night waiting for the armadillo to leave the garage. After about 5 minutes of crouching down so I could see where it went. I decided that I had to make a run for it. I did not know anything about armadillos at the time. I did not know if they were dangerous or if they had diseases. As one might assume I was very cautious. Once I confirmed that the armadillo was in the other corner of the garage I made a run for it and got into the house. I left the garage door open so that hopefully, it would find its way out. I went upstairs did a little Wikipedia research and found out the not only do that often care diseases like leprosy, they can also jump or hop about 2 feet high. Well that is enough to freak anybody out. However, against all better judgment I went back out to see what was going on. I took my camera hoping to get a picture of the armadillo. I was very cautious and used walked along the floorboards of my father-in-laws suburban trying to stay off the ground. I was quiet for a few moments and tried to listen for the sound of its feet. I eventually heard that it was just outside the garage. I climbed around the back of the car and onto the bumper and used my camera’s flash to see the ground in front of me. Much to my surprise as I pressed the shutter button and the strobe flash started going off me saw two armadillos running away. Then I looked at where they were going and saw another one. That makes three armadillos in total. I do not know how many I locked up in my in-laws garage all day, but apparently, there were a lot of armadillos around.

This was a strange day. I not only broke the lawn mower, I also locked one if not more armadillos in a garage. I do not know if I am ready to have my own house. I cannot even take care of someone other people’s houses. Wish me luck…