A Pregnant Woman's Nose....KNOWS!!!!

We had a tremendous storm last night. I was awakened at 2:30AM, not by the sound of the thunder, but by the smell of the rain and wind....you know that "storm" smell. It was very strong. The electricity was out, and the lightning was brilliantly lighting the room. The smell was so strong to my pregnant nose, that I wondered if maybe a skylight had broken, I got up to check out the darkened house and found to my horror that our front door was standing WIDE open!!!! It was pouring down rain outside. I closed the door (which was locked) and I went to wake up John. I guess I watch too much TV but I wanted him to get up and go check on all of the kids to make sure that they had not been stolen, and to also check to see if there was a creepy man in our house! It was pitch black and I tripped over Reagan's car...OUCH!


Well, all of the kids were in bed and accounted for...whew...there was no creepy man...back to bed we went. Only to be awakened by Whitney who wanted to sleep with us...NEVER happens...we let her in and it was like having a monkey in the bed...needless to say, I am exhausted!!!!

THEN, when Whitney got up at 5:59!!!!, she saw THIS in our backyard.

So, John and the girls spent like 20 minutes making a safe haven for our new baby owl friend!


We called the wildlife specialist guy and he can't take on a new bird because he is going out of town this weekend. He suggested that we put it in a tree and see if it will fly...I am SURE that LUCKY would enjoy that!!!!