OK so, here it is:
About a year after I had surgery, I decided to start a garden. We lived in a rent house in Round Rock and it had a raised plot in the backyard that I thought had been a garden at one point so I thought I'd make the most of it. I was working full time and I guess I had just had the 12/7 in January. It was Spring Break so I had the week off & thought that would be a good thing to do during my time off. I kept getting SUPER tired and was only able to do a little bit at a time (I figured out later that I was pregnant). I was out hoeing (sp?) trying to work the soil when all of the sudden, I looked & I had chopped something in half. Of course I ran SCREAMING into the house - Dave was at work & I called him and naturally I also had to call me parents and tell them! What had happened is that we had had a RAT in our garage earlier in the winter - it must have been a tough ole bugger because it had chewed up the wires in the engine of my car AND the big orange extension cord to our Christmas lights (that was plugged in)!!! Anyway, when the exterminator came, he told us that the rat would eat the poison and then just crawl away to where it lived to die - apparently, that was the "garden" plot of land! Needless to say, I received LOTS of ribbing about the rat and calling Dave HYSTERICAL but wouldn't you have been a little freaked if you had chopped a rat in half??? A couple of weeks later, I was at the home of a student that his mom & I had gotten to be really good friends - she brought us meals and helped take care of me after my surgery. They were/are REALLY into juicing and eating VERY healthy and had gotten us started "juicing" as she thought that this would really aid in my recovery. We were making juice and just visiting and she was going to juice a beet - she wacked the end off and then she looked at me and smiled. It had a LONG root on it...she gave it to me and told me to put it in one of the cabinets in the kitchen with the "tail" hanging out so it looked like there was a rat in the cabinet!! I did it and when Dave got home, I walked into the kitchen and then started screaming - that is where the paralyzed face came in handy!! He got a broom and was ready to do some business - I think his blood was really pumping!! He opened that cabinet and was ready to wack the snot out of that rat and it was only a beet root!!! I DEFINITELY got the last laugh on that one!!! I just don't think that there could have been anything that looked more realistic! You know, I haven't heard anything about the rat incident in years...
K
