December 16, 2011, this evenings fun

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, oh, sorry it was just today!
This evening to be exact. After supper was over, and we were enjoying a nice light snow in our country home ( sounds really posh! for our country shack!).
Our little dog wanted out, and in and out and in. To the point I was ready to ring her little neck, but can’t do that just look into her sweet brown eyes, and open the door yet again. Now our little girl hears things we do not, and when she does she wants us to know all about it. While she has a human vocabulary of understanding of about 200 words, I have not gotten that proficient in dog, only knowing certain signals that she has trained me to, with a reward ( no pee or poo to clean up if I get it right!). So I quickly learned in and out signals. Here again for the 4th time in less than an hour was the out signal. So I opened the door ..... MISTAKE !!!!
Here I must interrupt my self to mention we also have a cat. A lovely cat, kills lots of mice, rats, and things like that and drops them off at the back door for me ( well, I’d rather that than him bring them in like he used to before we kept the window shut!).
So back to the story,
The dog had me butler the door again and then she sat just inside the door as the cat flew past me at a great speed. The dog still sat, and didn’t want out, just letting me know the cat wanted in. so I turned around to go back in the kitchen and a furry blob scooted up the wall beside me! I jumped back and had a better look and it was a squirrel. Now I must tell you I am not a critter remover, he was laying down in bed watching the TV. So I called him in for critter duty. However , no one communicated our wishes to Squirrel. Now Squirrel was some upset with cat, me and now DH. Squirrel didn’t wait for dh to get it out, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, squirrel headed for the living room and under the big chair with cat in hot pursuit. Dh, by this time is up and on Critter catching mode. I am busy shutting doors to bedrooms, and bathroom and computer room! Then back to help Dh move the Chair, which we accomplished with quick movement, but not quick enough, Squirrel was up the chair and over the top and jumped on Dh back holding on to this weird tree for all it was worth. Dh stayed bent over and yelling “grab the ***!!@#*!! Squirrel " so I did.
Well, I tell you that Squirrel was not impressed with my helping at all! It sank teeth and nails into the back of my hand while I held it by the back of the neck with the other hand, and I ran to the back door and put my hand down on the outside freezer, and the Squirrel finally realized it had reached freedom and I swear it bit my hand harder to say “**!!**#@ You lady”! Then it flew off the back porch. I headed for the bathroom and washed my hand and ran the cold water over it to help slow the bleeding, then grabbed a clean wash cloth to apply pressure as it started to swell with blood flowing under the skin. Got the bleeding stopped and the punctures (7) covered with Polysporin (sp?) .
Now the pain is just about gone, and I realized I am a hero! I’ve never been a hero, I saved the Squirrel ( ungrateful thing) , and Dh ( and if he thinks I’m going to let him forget how I took that beast off his back and fought my way from the living room to the back porch enduring excruciating pain all the way,...... well, it did hurt a little... He can think again!)
Oh, yes, Ken’s back is fine, the dog has stopped asking me to man the door, and the cat is eating dried cat food and giving me the evil eye!
And how was your evening a week before Christmas?