It all seems normal until someone sees you doing it...

So, this week is the week of the critters. On Saturday, Exo and I were out working on our garden. Exo was on the roof cutting limbs, and I was planting flowers and plants in our front garden (the plants we rescued from the sale rack at Lowes! They were so sad!) So, while we are working, Thano comes out to help, er... supervise... um, we'll call it "chat". Suddenly, Thano yells, "oh no! watch out watch out watch out!". At this point I could've either 1.) asked him what the heck I was to "watch out" for, although that would've been far too easy and take waaaayyyy too long. 2.) stood up and ran away from the spot i was in at that time, again - far too logical, or 3.) stay in my squatted position and... are you ready for this... curl forward into a ball and cover my head. *ding ding ding!!!* You guessed it. Seconds later, the cut angle of the trimmed 3 inch thick branch hits me right in the kidney (area - not my ACTUAL kidney silly) with a dull thud. "OWWWUUUCHAA! WTH!??", I asked my oblivious husband. "Oh, sorry", he said. "You knew I was up here cutting limbs! You should watch out!". Fired. Totally fired. I looked up to see Thano with his "Holy cheese-balls?!" face on. After I regained my breath, I decided I would make it, and continued to garden. Part of this gardening involved planting some plans next to a birdhouse that some weird little bees decided to take over and build a nest in. I made a deal with them - if you don't bite me, I won't kill you. We have an understanding. I don't want to kill them. They pollinate my flowers, therefore they can stay. :) So I was digging in the dirt and must have hit a rock and disturbed the nest, so my newfound friends came out to check out the intruder's intentions. Not that I didn't trust them to take our agreement seriously, but I thought I'd give them some space for a while.... in the form of RUNNING AWAY to the other end of the yard! When I came back they had settled down, but I still wanted those flowers in the ground, so I asked Exo if he would move the bee-house for a while. "What?!!! No, you aren't serious. YOU ARE?! The things I do for you, woman". So he put a towel over the opening of the first story of the house, and moved it to the middle of the front yard. "What do I do with it now?", he asked. "Run like hell", I replied. So he did, and we did. We could hear them in their buzzing pissiness, from the neighbor's yard! So, after they calmed down, I took care of the flowers, etc, and while I was doing so, I turned around to find out what Exo was doing. And there he was, in full army crawl - mouth open in awe - inching toward the little bee house! "Come look!" he beconed "You can see the weird little nest!". "Really?!", I asked in wonder as I crouched into my best girly ninja crawl to join him. "oooohhhh wow! That's so coooolll!" I said, inching closer. So there we were, the two of us, just a few feet from the bee house on our bellies in the front yard. Just then, a car drove by. We both watched as the driver rubberneckingly stared at us, like they had never seen two people stalking a little white house in their own yard before. At that point I reflected a bit - you know, alot of things seem normal... until someone else sees you doing it! We have since moved the bee's abode to a hook in the corner, and off the ground, so that I don't bother them, and vise versa, in the future. Take a look at the picture of the house and the nest above! so coooolll! lol hahahaha
More to come about the critters in our yard. This is their world, we just live in it!