Last night, the super-nasty thunderstorm that had been dropping tornadoes all through Oklahoma went right over my house, complete with a very big, very obvious rotating wall cloud. Which, of course, my wife took my son out on the back deck to see, since it wasn’t even raining at our house. I’m all for giving him an intellectual understanding of bad weather so he’s not afraid of it, but… wait a minute. Who’s this knocking on my door at 3:30 in the morning? “Dad, I’m scared.” Um… yeah. Couldn’t get him back to his own bed without a major meltdown until 5 in the morning. Good show!
But other interesting phenomena happened at our house last night as well. I don’t think he was deposited by the storm either. He was lured by the smell of dog food on the back deck. (The reason dog food hits the back deck is simple: Xena hauls off her dog food bowls to points unknown for fun. It’s gotten expensive and a bit silly trying to replace all the bowls. So… dog food on deck!)
Of course, it wasn’t our dog chowing down on dog food. It was someone all three cats were very eager to eat, erm, sorry, meet.
It was the new and improved, streamlined Todd the Possum, Model III.
Thanks to the latest advances in possum technology, this latest version of Todd the Possum (our code name for the one lucky possum that Xena hand-picks every year to hop up onto the deck and share dog food with her) is tiny. Pocket-sized, even!
Truly a portable possum for any possum-based applications you need to run in the field (most likely in the field next to our house). Meet the previous holders of the title of “Todd the Possum” here and here. I’m sure we’ll be seeing “Li’l T” again, and of course he’ll be bigger every time since he’ll be gorging himself on dog food.
And as for today’s weather forecast?
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