02-18-2009, 06:56 PM
beerman wrote:
JoeH, did you post pics of that house to the forum at one time? That story sounds very familiar to me.
You mention that sometimes people end up on the street and it allows me to segue into a little parental story telling. I am a strong supporter of our local mission and I want my kids to grow up understanding how important of a job the mission performs. So I took my eight year old daughter to tour the local facility with the ceo in the lead. In the end I had my daughter write a report on what she had learned and her teacher asked her to read it in front of her class. You can imagine my pride. I read the report later and notice she talks about how the mission feeds people who walk around on the streets. That little tidbit came from the ceo of the mission when he told us they feed the "streetwalkers." She came up with her own interpretation of that!
No, that was another person who also had a "problem house" in their neighborhood that posted pics. But, as illustrated by the similarity, if you look around enough they can be found all over. Though I might post pics of the ground hog I have that sometimes lives under my porch courtesy of the neighbor. During the time it was unoccupied, a female set up a den in the barn in back of that house and had a few offspring. They spread out into the neighborhood from there. Several have been trapped and dumped in the woods miles away by my neighbors. One was run over on in the street just around the corner. But the one I have in my yard must have got all the intelligence, it has avoided traps, cars and neighborhood dogs for two years so far. Will try to get rid of it again this year if it comes back from wherever it has denned up for the winter.