Welcome to the Funny Farm

Hey Readers!

My name is Caitlin and I am 22 years old.  I have recently moved back home to Texas after 4 years in college in Boston.  Not only have I moved back home, I've moved in with my mom, aunt, AND grandmother.  To add some extra spice to this already hot situation, we live on a farm.  To be clear, it is not a ranch or anything fancy. It is a farm.  We have 20 llamas, 6 chickens,  5 dogs, 2 horses, 1 babydoll sheep, and too many peacocks.  Our farm is like a box of chocolates. You really never know what you're going to get here.  It seems like something random yet hilarious happens everyday.  And I have decided to document our lives in this blog for y'all to read.

To give everyone a sense of the type of crazy that happens here, my first story is my favorite.  It was this past summer that this all went down.  One day we discovered that a mother oppossum and her babies had moved in under our back porch.  For those of you who have been fortunate enough not to see these animals should be consider themselves blessed.  These are by far the ugliest and scariest creatures EVER! Now, I also have a beagle named Beanie.  One night I  was upstairs enjoying my lovely sleep when Beanie starts her infamous beagle howl.  Thinking it would stop, I threw a pillow over my head and tried to go back to sleep.  After about 5 minutes, I was fuming with rage.  I mean come on! All I wanted to do was sleep!  I stormed downstairs to let her out thinking she had to go outside or something.   When I let her out, she darted to the other side of the room and howled even louder.  At that time I knew something was not right.  I turned on the light and saw two beady eyes staring at me.  IT WAS AN OPPOSSUM!!!!!  AAAAHHHHH!!! In the house!  Mind you it was a baby, but at that moment I didn't care.
So of coarse being the grown-up I am, I went and got my mommy to take care of it.
She came out in a sleepy haze and looked so unaffected that an oppossum was in our living room.  She got a towel, threw it over the beast, picked it up and put it outside.  She was like Xena the Warrior Princess!  Well, you can imagine, I didn't sleep too well that night.  Whenever I heard a noise I thought it was the oppossum coming to avenge me!  Now whenever Beanie barks, I search the house.