On a recent weekend, I ended up working through a good part of it since we had another software release at work and it wasn't going real smooth. I was in my home office most of the time and at one point my wife poked her head in and saw that I was on a call so she closed the door without saying anything.
It wasn't until later that I found out what had happened.
You see - sometimes there are both good and bad aspects to being stuck working at certain points in time. This is one of moments.
So the reason my wife had come in was to see if I could get a squirrel out of our pool enclosure. My daughter had noticed it and told my wife. My wife, seeing I was on a call decided that she could get the squirrel out with a little support from my son to help her. Now my son isn't much for animals in general so he is with her just to provide comforting words.
My wife chooses the pool skimmer with the long pool as her weapon of choice to try and prod the squirrel out of the enclosure. The squirrel is hanging on the netting trying to figure out where to go. My wife gets the squirrel on the skimmer net and then she starts to bring it towards her a bit - she is on the narrow side deck between the pool and enclosure so not much room to maneuver the net. Now, what she didn't think about was that the squirrel was scared stiff and didn't know what to do other than.... JUMP.
Apparently, it chose to jump towards her. We don't know why or whether it thought it could make it over her. It didn't make it over her by the way. It hit her awkwardly on top of the head and she screamed very loudly, my son says. After which, the squirrel fell in the pool. It swam quickly to the side and got out at which point it clung to the side of the enclosure panting like mad and looking pretty pathetic.
My wife quickly recovered but took a break. My son and wife had opened the doors on each side of the enclosure with the hope it would just find its way out. After a long while, it still hadn't gotten out. As it finally got closer to an open door, my wife went out to see if she could goad it into getting all the way out. Unfortunately, her arrival had the initial opposite effect - it put all its attention on the bad lady that dropped it in the pool..
After a few more minutes though, it finally recognized that there was an opening and it made good time getting out.. I suspect I will see one less squirrel running up and down the side of the pool enclosure now.
Of course, I'm working through this whole thing and oblivious to the fun and adventure. I wish my daughter had taken video.. it would be worthy of AFV on television.
Now how the squirrel go into the enclosure.. best guess is I have had an electrical cord running from the lanai out to my workshop since I don't have the electric from the house run out there yet - which means the enclosure door is always open a little.. My wife has informed me that the cord is no longer keeping the door open.. (I say right now at least... ehehhehe )
Hope this adventure gives someone a smile.
It wasn't until later that I found out what had happened.
You see - sometimes there are both good and bad aspects to being stuck working at certain points in time. This is one of moments.
So the reason my wife had come in was to see if I could get a squirrel out of our pool enclosure. My daughter had noticed it and told my wife. My wife, seeing I was on a call decided that she could get the squirrel out with a little support from my son to help her. Now my son isn't much for animals in general so he is with her just to provide comforting words.
My wife chooses the pool skimmer with the long pool as her weapon of choice to try and prod the squirrel out of the enclosure. The squirrel is hanging on the netting trying to figure out where to go. My wife gets the squirrel on the skimmer net and then she starts to bring it towards her a bit - she is on the narrow side deck between the pool and enclosure so not much room to maneuver the net. Now, what she didn't think about was that the squirrel was scared stiff and didn't know what to do other than.... JUMP.
Apparently, it chose to jump towards her. We don't know why or whether it thought it could make it over her. It didn't make it over her by the way. It hit her awkwardly on top of the head and she screamed very loudly, my son says. After which, the squirrel fell in the pool. It swam quickly to the side and got out at which point it clung to the side of the enclosure panting like mad and looking pretty pathetic.
My wife quickly recovered but took a break. My son and wife had opened the doors on each side of the enclosure with the hope it would just find its way out. After a long while, it still hadn't gotten out. As it finally got closer to an open door, my wife went out to see if she could goad it into getting all the way out. Unfortunately, her arrival had the initial opposite effect - it put all its attention on the bad lady that dropped it in the pool..
After a few more minutes though, it finally recognized that there was an opening and it made good time getting out.. I suspect I will see one less squirrel running up and down the side of the pool enclosure now.
Of course, I'm working through this whole thing and oblivious to the fun and adventure. I wish my daughter had taken video.. it would be worthy of AFV on television.
Now how the squirrel go into the enclosure.. best guess is I have had an electrical cord running from the lanai out to my workshop since I don't have the electric from the house run out there yet - which means the enclosure door is always open a little.. My wife has informed me that the cord is no longer keeping the door open.. (I say right now at least... ehehhehe )
Hope this adventure gives someone a smile.
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