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This is What Too Many Margarita’s Gets You

By on May 1, 2012 in Family Life, Funny | 8 comments

It was a warm Sunday afternoon and my mom and I were outside enjoying the sunshine.  The boys were riding their bikes and we decided that it would be a good time for a margarita. As if we really needed a reason for a margarita. The evening progressed, the boys were playing, the sun was dipping on the horizon, we kept refilling our margaritas.  We might have drunk ordered some pizza.  Our evening was grand, we were happy! Suddenly, my little Honey kitty came running up from the other side of our property carrying a gopher.  We all cheered for her!  I’ve written about our gophers before and how they are a huge problem and I detest them. DETEST. So Honey was playing with her gopher, it was really giving her a run for her money.  We were all cheering, the kids gathered around to watch as if it was a Colosseum match to the death. We toasted the gopher and his sacrifice. But then the...

I Hate Gophers!

By on Apr 27, 2009 in Family Life | 5 comments

We used to have a couple cats.  We had no gophers.  Then the cats died within a few months of each other.  All of a sudden, we have a huge gopher problem. The suckers were totally destroying our yard.  We have a lot of property here, but only a small 20×20 or so patch of grass that is our “yard.”  The gopher holes were trashing it.  The gophers were eating my dad’s rose bushes, they killed the oleanders.  Just about everything really. Then Bob had the idea of tearing the entire yard out.  He was to lay down aviary wire (thick chicken wire) so that the gophers couldn’t burrow into the yard.  It sounded like a great idea.  He spent an entire weekend working his ass off to pull the dirt out, lay down the wire and then replace and replant the grass. For two weeks I water this plot of dirt waiting for the grass to grow.  Stupid freaking grass is not growing. I...