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When you live in West Texas, it is inevitable that you will at some point come in contact with a creature who, in gentler terms, "has passed".  Whether it be as you drive merrily down the road and are suddenly struck by the incredibly pungent odor of a dead skunk, or are the cause of a massive uprising of buzzards from the carcass of a too-slow deer. Little Sunshine's first experience happened up close and personally in the construction site of our new home.  As it is on a lot just outside of city limits, there is a plethora of mice in the neighboring fields, and it would seem one of the new neighbor's cats wished to give us a little house-warming present.  Minus the head. Little Sunshine came running and said, "Mama, mama, you have to see this!"  I went and, yep, the headless mouse was dead alright.  Little Sunshine squatted down and started to poke the carcass.  "Don't do that!  Don't touch it!" I yelled.  She looked up at me startled