Possum are nasty gigantic rat looking things that you don't want inside...

Well, my mom doesn't have a blog so I have to tell this story for her- it is too good to not put online.

Yesterday morning my mom crawled out of bed and walked down the hall towards the main room where there is a double sliding glass door. When she looked up she saw a possum perched above the blinds on the doors!!! She of course freaked out a little, but then decided that since it wasn't moving she'd have to figure out how to get it out. She started rearranging the furniture making a path for the thing to get out of the house. She started hitting it with a broom trying to get it to jump down and it started biting the broom and hissing at her. I just have to say that my mom is the bravest woman alive. I would have been holed up in my room calling 911 or something.

She finally got it to jump down and it didn't want to go outside (apparently they're nocternal) so it slid between the couches into the den and hid under a TV stand. Can you IMAGINE??? She called a neighbor to come help and together they formed a wall out of mat boards that lead to the front door, it tried to slip between, but with both of them they got it outside.

The worst part is that it pooped and got it all over the window and blinds and on the carpet. My mom spent all day in a gas mask shampooing pretty much the entire house, I don't blame her!

You may be asking yourself, how did it get in? The night before she was out working late in the garage and had opened all of the doors to cool the house off and when she went in for the night she locked the doors and didn't notice that the possum was in the house. It slept the whole night there. The moral of the story is: don't ever leave your doors open-ever.