Thursday, October 30, 2008

Deer heads and dead rats, oh my!

We were back at Leo’s today. We approached the house only to find a dead rat outside the door. I had to think hard if this was a message from some Mafia family. I’ve heard of the horses head in bed, but I guess this rat just died from running back and forth from Leo’s house.

Mom thought it was still alive and had to use a stick to confirm it was stiff as a board. Then we just left it for awhile. But every time I’d walk out of the house, I’d almost step on it and freak out. So, mom finally buried it.

We worked until I could no longer breathe in any more dust, then we went back to mom’s farm. I was just getting over the horror of the dead rat image when mom’s 15 year old crippled dog, Dopey, came back from the woods with a deer head in her mouth. Mom proclaimed that my brother had not done a good job of getting rid of it. I think that when my brother disposed of it, he figured that Dopey would not be able to walk that far. Dopey can no longer see or hear, so who would figure she could smell.

So, I had to watch Dopey gnaw on some vein from the bottom of the deer’s head while the deer’s cute eyes stared lifelessly at me.

Nightmares coming tonight, I guarantee it.

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