I found a dead Rat

So Monday I came into work to be greeted by the horrid smell of a dead animal....I turned on my sniffer and narrowed the smell down to a corner of the "green room" that i work in (35x35ft room). Well i checked all the traps around that area and found them all to be empty. So I then looked around the boxes under the table until i saw a hole in the wall and assumed the animal was in there, because 2 weeks ago i had the task of entering the attic of our 1905/1910 office house to place rat bait/poison around up there and was assuming some would come downstairs to die.... Oh well i said...the smell of a decaying animal should be gone within a few weeks...I'll live with it. Well today (Wednesday) my friend came in and said "Are you sure its in the wall"...Does she not know that is a dare to me....So I went to work going through each box to find our "little friend"...within in a few minutes I had found a friend...but he was not little. I found a Norwegian rat between two boxes, saw his size and went to get a mask and bags from downstairs.....so i could begin the clean up process...Caution Details are below....

Well when i returned and moved the boxes i was welcomed by a large amount of maggets eatting Mr. Rat, so i put him in a plastic bag and moved on to removing the maggets by brushing them onto a peice of paper with a cd then dumping them into the rat bag. I then borrowed the vaccum from the nursery and vaccumed up the remaing rat fur, poo, and other icky things....The nannies have informed me they will be buying a new vaccum and i may keep the one I borrowed. How nice of them! Here is a link to my old blogg and the pictures of my new friend...Caution Gross Pictures of Rat

Emma's Wish List

I added Emma's wish list to my side panel...And right here

Recycle you Crocs

So I found out today that after your crocs get old and the soles wear out (if they just stink, you wash them) you can donate/recycle them through solesunited and they clean them, grind them up, and make new crocs to send to people in need (the video on the web site shows people in Africa). On the web site you can find a donation center near you, or they give you an adress to send them to. So donate your old crocs!

My life as a truck driver (kind of)

So before y'all freak out and and say "How can you leave your wife and baby to drive trucks" (not that there is anything wrong with that profession).....I'm speaking of analogy I came up with to describe my working life.
Ok here is how it works:

• Monday morning I gas up (eat breakfast) and head off for a week of driving my truck (sitting at my desk at Earth search)...Some days I drive more miles than others (work on more projects)...But I always come home to a loving family (for real).
• This trend continues until Friday when after driving all day i have to unload the truck (Deliver Pitas at Pita Pit)...I get so into unloading the truck that I do not notice that i forgot to set the parking break and I get hit by my truck (Work until 4am... leaving me feeling like I got hit by a truck)....While unconscious from the truck hitting me I sometimes have some wonderful dreams of spending time with my family (The time I spend with Emma and Sarah from when I wake up on Saturday to 6pm that night when i go back to work...it seems so hazy)....When I gain consciousness I realize I still have more unloading to do, so off to unloading I go (back to the Pita Pit)....Silly me forgot the parking break again...Bamm truck hits me again (another 4am night)...Ahh dreams of Sarah and Emma again (time spent with my girls once again)....Time to finish unloading the truck (last night at Pita Pit..sometimes till 12am...last night till 2am)....Then off to drive the truck again on Monday (back to work at Earth Search).
• While it seems I am complaing about working to much in this hard time of no work for some people, I know I am blessed to have a wonderful family and two jobs that would work me 80 hrs a week each if i could. God is good...ALL THE TIME...There are blessings everywhere we look..we must simply wipe the evil of our world that clogs our eyes and open our eyes and hearts to our great and grace giving God..