A Trying 24

You know those days that get to even the most patient of all people? Well we by no means are the most patient, but we sure had one of those trying days.

Let's rewind to 24 hours ago:
1. Sequoia finds two dead birds in our backyard, fetches one and brings it to dad. [Gross!]
2. As Dave goes to get tools from the garage, he finds an infestation of ants. [Really?]
3. Meanwhile, in the basement, we find Sequoia and Belle obsessively sniffing Dave's backpack in the under-stairwell storage area. Turns out, there's a dead baby mouse in the netting of his bag. [Where there's one baby, there's probably a whole family.]
4. While we are trying to dispose of the mouse, we catch Belle's snout surveying the basement baseboards; we find these giant red and black spiders that almost look like they have bodies of fire ants. [Let's hope she didn't eat one!]
5. Twelve hours later, we notice mouse traps have sprung, but no mouse. [Oh, it's on now MOUSE!]
And to cap it all off:
6. In the middle of the night, one of the girls [we believe Sequoia] has explosive diarrhea all over our master bedroom. We have a bell on the door and they know to ring it to be let out in the middle of the night. Of course, no ringing.

So now we quite possibly have a bird disease problem, several mice occupying the basement, AND a sick dog on our hands. Hold on tight, it's going to a fun weekend!