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happy birthday! I hope you have a great day. :) You share a birthday with my sister.

Have a wonderful birthday !

Thank you all so much! (((hugs))) It's been a great day so far!

I'm so happy you're having a great day . You're a great friend!

Hope you're having a very happy birthday

- congratulations! Great pick up! I think I've only tried the rift twice. This inspires me to see what it's all about . :)

Here's a funny story for you guys: We have a lot of little blue-tailed lizards/skinks around our house, and every now and then, we get one in our sunny front room. My cat St. John is great at hunting them, and just loves to get one and take it too his mesh cube and put it in it and watch it run around. It's really funny to see, but I always catch them and put them back outside. Okay, keep that thought in your mind.

Lately, he's been wanting me out of bed sooner than I want, and he'll either scratch at the box spring, or get on the bed and pick at me and the covers. I've been trying to teach him not to do it, but it's a work in progress. Okay, keep that in mind, too.

The other day, I was having a nap – - I hadn't slept that night, so I was sleeping pretty hard. I gradually became aware that St. John was on the bed and was picking at my blanket. I mumbled for him to stop, but he didn't, of course, so I tried to wake up enough to move him off the bed. As I sat up, I saw that he wasn't looking at me, like he normally would be, but had all his attention on the blanket, near my leg. It hit me immediately, that he must have something on the bed that he was playing with. I grabbed at the blanket, to jerk it off me and get up, and slung a skink up toward me. I struggled to sit up further and get the blanket off me and get off the bed (I use a fifteen pound weighted blanket, so it's not an easy thing to do). In doing so, I put my hand right on the little creature! I squawked, rolled over fast to get away from it, and, being closer to the edge of the bed than I thought, rolled right off onto my hands and knees! I was stunned at first, then it became funny and I have cracked up every time I have thought about it since! Luckily, I didn't really get hurt. I landed hard on one knee, as that was the first place I hit, and it did swell up just a bit, but otherwise, just some pretty nasty bruising on both knees. (I was able to catch the little guy and get him out of the house, by the way. St. John had carried him back into the living room and was playing happily when I finally made it up off the floor. . . It really WAS funny!)

(((hugs)))

Thank you! It was a great day!

OHMYGOSH , I love little critters but from a distance. It would have made a hilarious video. 😆