The Welcome Wagon

Oct 2nd. (Pay no attention to the date generated by the ghouls behind the scenes. They do not understand the true nature of time and space, or the laziness of some bloggers in posting to their blog!)

Today we got our first surprise visitor. The apartment has some of the wolrd’s cheapest carpet installed, so we’ve been insisting that everyone takes off their shoes when they first come in. I was going to be incredibly efficient, and told the kids to put their shoes away in the front closet, but, when opened, we found a scorpion clinging to the side wall.

I called the kids over, we all observed the scorpion and discussed how cool they look. then there was a moment of silence, and I told the kids to go upstairs. Dad had some work to do. A really brave person would have tried to capture it and release it, but… well…..

After a furious exibition of shoe fu, the scorpion had been rendered to a smear on the closet wall and a crumpled mess on the floor. I cleaned it up and we have all moved on.