This is a picture I took of a squirrel in the back yard, nibbling on a piece of bread that my husband threw off the deck yesterday. We enjoyed watching him drop it...run down the tree to retrieve it...and then back up to resume his meal.
We had just fallen asleep last night when my phone rang at 10:15pm. It was a man's voice asking for "_______", which is the name of my husband. I asked who was calling and the name sounded familiar. Immediately, I'm on alert because 1) we don't usually get phone calls that late; 2) why was he calling on my phone asking for my husband; 3) my son's past drug life.
The name doesn't sound familiar to my husband and in his fuzzy half-asleep brain, he's telling him he doesn't know anyone by that name. The man says, "Aren't you the friend of _____'s?", as I whisper, in my fuzzy half-asleep brain, "I think it's the father of one of J's friends", so then husband says to the man, "Oh, sure, how are you?" The man then says, "The plant will be ready by the 8th or 9th. What day is better for you?" Husband says, "What?" Man then repeats himself. Husband says, "Oh, the 8th would be better". Man then says, "O.K., I'll give you a call then". Husband says, "O.K., talk to you then".
After he hangs up, we're both very confused. Husband says it was a drug deal, I say, are you sure, maybe by plant he means something else. We call J on speakerphone and ask him if he knows this person, he says "Yes, I'm going to his wedding in May".
To summarize the outcome: My son has used my phone a few times when his battery has been low, because he left his charger at his Aunt's and he had called this friend from my phone a few days ago. This friend was trying to reach someone that has the same first name as my husband and hit redial for the wrong phone number. My son was very concerned that we were thinking he was involved in something, which we have to admit crossed our minds. When we thought it through, we realized that it didn't involve J because the friend asked for someone else, not J.
Anyway, J had called the friend when he hung up from us and then called us back to talk about it. As we were talking, the friend called us and apologized. He explained the mishap and said he wanted to make sure that we knew that J was turning his life around and had nothing to do with this. I thanked him for calling back and said, "If you don't stop what you're doing, you'll end up eventually getting into trouble also!"
It dredged up past fears and reminded me of how vulnuerable our emotions are!
....and to end on a humorous note
My husband was relaying a funny incident that happened the other day with our roommate. He said that I wasn't home this particular day, when he was standing in the kitchen and had terrible gas. He was just in the middle of releasing a very loud "fart", when he heard her dainty footsteps rounding the corner. He turned and said that her eyes were very wide and she almost started running out the door with a horrified look on her face!
My husband finds these topics of humanity to be very humorous and was almost crying with laughter as he shared this moment with me!
I hope that everyone can find something to laugh about every day!
