Coffee Break [11/12/23]

Your mid morning pick me up

11/12/23 Hannibal 25

Some people have all the luck.

@brettbratt359

I don’t understand how this thing is in my house right now.

♬ original sound – Brett

Not a fan of possums? Have an owl. I’m checking my tree every day hoping for a puppy or bunny to have taken up residence. As long as it’s not a squirrel.

Anything interesting going on in your world this Monday morning?

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25 Comments

  1. I’d have trouble if a baby opossum was in my Christmas tree. Trouble because I’d want to get a pet bed and keep it indoors while rationally knowing that’s a horrible idea because they’re not pets but OMG it’s so cute.

    • I’d be the same way, lol. In another TikTok the woman says she called her partner who was out of town to ask him what to do. And the first thing he said to her was, “You cannot keep it!”

        • I follow an instagram account @juniperfoxx, the woman runs a small rescue in FL for animals that cannot be rewilded. She has several foxes, a couple raccoons, and recently an opossum that passed from his health condition. She needed to bathe him almost daily because he rolled in his food and poop. Though I think that was more related to his condition (some neuro issue that caused poor balance/gait) but yeah, poor guy was a mess. Cute though.

  3. Every so often we get a fly or a mosquito. It’s kind of unimaginable since we keep the windows closed and the only thing I can think of is that the insect(s) follow us in when the Faithful Hound is walked. When I used to walk him there were rats and mice all over the place, Greatest City in the World, and he used to try to befriend them. I’m being uncharitable. He’s a black Lab so I was probably supposed to kill the prey and he was supposed to retrieve it.

    Anyway, I can imagine flies and mosquitos circling his noble head and him thinking, “Come on in! There’s room for all of us.” Thankfully he’s never brought in cockroaches or bedbugs. Is it 2023 or 1723?

  7. I would love to find an owl. They’re awesome, even if they shouldn’t be in my house.

    Yeah, cats and Christmas….

    Let’s just refer to that as a jingle-boop.

      • When our previous, very elderly dog went blind it wasn’t the worst thing, she operated by smell and hearing and memory, I think. But of course we put up the Christmas trees (this was quite a while ago) and she banged into one of them, where her Wee-Wee pads were supposed to be. Broken glass (from the ornaments) and the collapsed tree took up half the living room.

        Of course I was reminded of “The Poseidon Adventure,” and I was alone, or at least without Better Half, so I started laughing and said, “Hurry [dog’s name], I’ll be the Gene Hackman character and lead you to safety!” So I put her (all 85 pounds of her) on her bed in our bedroom and did my best to clean up our Poseidon ballroom. It wasn’t entirely successful. BH came home with a couple of coworkers (whom I had met before, thankfully) and said, looking at the hastily uprighted Christmas tree, “What the Hell happened here?”

        “You all must be hungry. I was just about to make dinner. BH, could I have a word with you?”

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