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Wow. What great responses I received for the photo contest. The truth about the photo: this is my mom and she is shooting at squirrels in our backyard with a pellet gun. As you may know from reading my mom's blog we have a serious squirrel epidemic in our yard. We figure about ten squirrels live in this small area. They eat from our bird feeders, get fat and spread their germs all over the place. We used to like them (at one point years ago, my mom fed them!!!!), but now there are too many. So, in an attempt at population control we got a hold of a pellet gun...
Lance and Steve did all the shooting at first, but the next day they were gone so mom and I took matters into our own hands. We had done a couple practice shots the previous day. When it came to actually shooting the squirrels we were crack shots - we didn't miss! If you are worried about us killing squirrels, worry no longer. We hit many but killed none. The gun wasn't powerful enough. They flinched when we hit them and then ran away just fine. After that day of shooting -- which did cause some tension in me -- we quit this tatic. We didn't really want to be wounding them.
So now we are doing nothing about the squirrel problem. Except take pictures of them.
Now, about the contest. The winners for the first question are: Erin, Kristal, and Heidi. Good work girls.
Before announcing the winner of the second question I'd like to share a few highlights. You guys had me in stitches.
Kristal: "Kathy was in her bathroom and decided it needed some new decor, so she decided a stuffed squirrel or two would be complimentary on the walls." YUCK!
Heidi: "(headline on front page news) Startling Discovery of Photograph Brings to Light a Hidden Clue in the On-going Mystery...Who Really Shot JFK?"
Daddy O (my father-in-law, a brand new reader, jumping right in with some great responses): Bathrobe Bounty "There's a price on somebody's head." and "This is Spa Skeet Shooting at it's best" Hilarious!!!
Katelyn's answer cracked me up too. What a great story, the thing that was the funniest about that one was that when we were practicing our shooting my mom was so good that she blew the head off a buttercup! My brother Steve wasn't there and doesn't believe she actually did it. Well she did, and it made our yard look, "marginally better". Here's Katelyn's entry:
"Kathy does not have any clean laundry one morning, but she doesn't want to go outside in her bathrobe. Unfortunately the dandylions are overpowering her garden and something needs to be done. She cannot go outside so while her laundry is drying she shoots all the flowers off the dandylions in order to make her garden look marginally better."
I've done my best not to be biased in choosing a winner of the contest. I judged by creativity and hilarity. The winning entry caught me totally off guard. It was completely different from all the others in its format and content. The winner is Cara! Here's her entry:
"It's a picture from one of the cards in the new Trading Card game called, "Super Moms: The Undisclosed Duties." Housecoat Harasser: Pest Control Captain. Advantage: unassuming. Strength: 3.
For each other robe clad mom you can spot Housecoast Harasser is strength plus 2."
Cara is a new mother herself. I wonder what other "undisclosed duties" she has discovered since joining the ranks of the super moms. Congratulations Cara!!
Hope you are all well.
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