My cat Sacha just caught a mouse!

It's his 4th one in three years and he seemed hopelessly proud of it.

He yowled a bit to let me know and then played with it on the carpet for a while. I should have take a photo because he has now lost it somewhere. If it's still alive it can finish off all the catfood Sacha leaves before trying to work out how the catflap works. The main problem will be that the catflap doesn't recognise the mouse's microchip - if it even has one.

You're lucky you weren't allergic. I've seen a neighbor's son go into shock at the emergency room. Getting stung on the butt caused me to go into labor 3 months early! Hornets-hate them.

I'm more mind-blown that you actually went to sleep that night with a bumblebee loose in your house!! Nope Nope Nope!!

Insects are apparently sentient, as all living things are.
My son once accidently disturbed a bald hornet nest that had been built under the tarp cover of a table saw. The hornets chased him to the creek, hovered over the water, then covered our two-story farm house windows with angrily buzzing hornets who wouldn't let us out the door all day. I went outside that night and sprayed the nest in the dark.

But when I noticed a bald hornet snatching a horse fly from one of my horse's backs, I decided not to disturb the new hornet nest, built only three feet from the horse pasture gate, so they could take care of the fly problem for me, since the hornets weren't bothering us.

The hornets ignored everyone in our family, the neighbor kids, and even accepted my relatives when they visited, allowing everyone to walk through the pasture gate, only three feet from the nest, except for one warning sting for my sister's husband. His scent was apparently different from ours.

However, when my blue heeler pup ripped a hole in the nest, they chased her to the creek and kept her hiding under the water, and after that, she had to circle far out around to follow us and our other three dogs into the horse pasture. The hornets never forgave her all summer, until the fall when the frost killed the nest.

I sat on an insect (think it was a yellow jacket, though) when I was 7. I still freak out when I see any stinging insect, and get as far away as quickly as I can.

Although, to be fair, it didn't ask for money which puts it above Lisa. I've told you about Lisa a few times. Why am I attracted to women like her? Have a look at a bit of her history. And a photo.

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Driving a Land Rover in The Gambia last January.

And getting it stuck in the sand.

The photo is after burning the clutch out to get it out of the sand. First time I've ever smelled a burning clutch.

And she's still in business.