Alright. After a few inquires on Facebook I decided to post the story but it was too long to post on the wall so I decided...why not? I have 5-8 kids in my house everyday. Everyday brings new adventure. So here it is...the acorn story.
My parents invited me to go camping at Yogi Bear for the annual Halloween fest with them, Jenae, AJ, Danette and Megan. Elisabeth and Kyle really enjoy Yogi Bear with their cousins and sitting by a campfire all day sounded good to me so off we went.
We arrived just in time for pumpkin carving, painting, destroying time which was quite fun. After that, Jenae went around looking for acorns and showed Elisabeth how to turn acorns into pumpkins using orange and black paint and lots of patience. Well Elisabeth LOVED that!! The rest of the day we found her looking for acorns. While we were trick or treating she was collecting acorns. While we were eating she was collecting acorns. Being the animal lover she is, (snakes, bunnies, ferrets, stingrays even spiders and worms) she left the "easy" acorns for the squirrels. Easy means that they are damaged in some way and would make horrible jackolanterns but excellent food.
So our halloween day craft was to be painting miniature jackolanterns for all the kids to take home. ADORABLE.
Fast forward two weeks to last Wednesday. I am cleaning up the kitchen and find a small white slug. Gross but not horribly out of ordinary since my animal loving daughter and I spend hours collecting worms off the sidewalk and driveways in the neighborhood so they don't burn up or freeze. I dispose of the bug and disinfect the counter.
From this point on I start to notice gnats. Again, who doesn't have gnats now and then. I look in the pantry - no rotting potatoes. I clean the garbage disposal. I take out the garbage and clean the can. No biggie.
Yesterday I find another white "slug" on the counter and realize as I gag in horror that it is a magot. A MAGOT in my kitchen. Not good. I grab the bleach and start ti clean my kitchen from one side to the other. I cleaned in and around the bread box, the knife block, the cookie jar, the sugar bowl, the flour bowl, the mixaide, the coffee maker, the garbage disposal again...it is then I see it. The Halloween decoration Kyle made at Yogi Bear 3 weeks ago that I have been proudly dispalying. I peer inside. And I see acorns. Acorns covered in little wriggling, disgusting, white, "slugs". My darling daughter and I had been harboring gnats and their huge nursery of offspring for THREE weeks. So there you have it. Acorns are fruit of the devil.
Have a great day!!
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