Delegation

There are certain chores that I have inherited throughout our 12 years of marriage . . . and certain chores that Cristian takes care of. I take care of laundry, mopping floors, cooking . . . Cristian irons, scrubs a mean toilet, does all the outside landscaping, takes out the garbage, etc. And then there are those jobs that we haven't officially discussed and decided upon, but for some reason or another they have been delegated to either myself or DH.

I have been the lucky winner of disposing of rodents. Perhaps it is because in one of my areas on my mission, our neighbors had a pet pig. And said pet pig attracted little friends . . . or a little bit on the bigger side friends. Each morning, I would be awakened by a pouncing on my chest . . . which would then go down my stomach, legs, etc. I always knew that it was a little too heavy to be a mosquito . . . or even a little mouse. I was always afraid to open my eyes to see what exactly it was that would climb through our bedroom window every morning and pounce on me . . . and continue on it's merry way. Until one morning I opened up my eyes . . . to see exactly what it was. Yeah, not such a great idea. I was completely horrified. As earlier suspected, it was heavier than a little mouse . . . it was a stinkin' rat. I guess that mission experience prepared me for my job in marriage to dispose of rodents. When we first moved to West Sacramento, our house was built on what was an empty field and farmland for years and years. So of course we had the joy of uprooting several THOUSAND or maybe MILLION mice when our neighborhood was built. I got the pure joy and pleasure (NOT) of disposing of the mice that got caught in the traps . . . whether they still be alive or dead. Fun times.

After moving to Florida, I discovered that Cristian doesn't do green tree frogs or lizards. The green tree frogs REALLY GROSS ME OUT, but somebody's got to take them back outside to Mother Nature. Tino is freaked out also by green tree frogs, BUT he will do lizards. Last night I put him in charge of getting the little baby lizard out of our house. He had a little bit of difficulty catching the little critter, but he finally caught him and took him back outside. This is what our closet looked like after Tino came to the rescue. Thanks Tino for a job well done! And baby lizard, next time PLEASE don't mess up our closet. (This mess certainly couldn't have been attributed to Tino trying to catch the baby lizard could it?????)