8:45 a.m. - 2007-12-31
battle of the mailbox
Battle of the Mailbox: OK, I live in hot & humid Florida. Its the last day of 2007, I've actually written the Christmas thank-you notes. They need to go into the mailbox along with the latest Netflix movie. High School Musical btw and I could not get thru more than 15 min so back it goes. Anyway, I went down to the mailbox accompanied by my very old and almost blind golden retriever. She goes with me because she gets a cookie when we get back to the house. I open the mailbox door and there is a roach - remember the southern clime. And I just adore my mail-lady. She is fat (like me) and black (not-like-me) and we are mail buddies. She gets the figs off my 2 fig trees in August when its 100 outside. We wave and greet - I look forward to seeing her. And I did not think she would much like being greeted by a roach crawling all over the mail when she opens the box door. Now, I dont want to spray inside the box - yuch. So I trek back up to the house to get the flyswatter - a useful tool for living in the south. My dog is confused when she doesnt get a cookie and we are making a 2nd trip down the hill. Well, the short of it is that I WIN and the roach is now out of the box and the letters (and movie) are safely tucked inside. So my dear mail-lady will not have to deal with a huge insect - atleast not in my mailbox. I can only imagine that she encouters insects of all kinds. Mostly, I'm just glad is wasnt a snake. Now I wonder what other exciting adventures await me on this last day of 2007. I'll keep you posted - wink* ps: my dog finally got her cookie :)

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