Unwanted visitor

This evening I was still sitting at the dinner table while Caleb and Emily were playing together in their room. Then they made an entrance back into the living room. Like this. I don't know how Emily ropes Caleb into things like this.
We were lucky Joseph had the camera close at hand.
Emily wears those heels better than I do.

Later in the evening Joseph went grocery shopping. I heard the car get back - yeah, we've been enjoying 80-degree weather lately - and went out to help bring in groceries only to be stopped in my tracks by a possum. It was sitting just outside the front door and froze as I rushed out to join it. I immediately ran inside to call Joseph on his phone, but saw him out the kitchen window before the call connected. So I jumped up on the kitchen counter and yelled a warning down to him. I'm sure the neighbors appreciated the commotion - everyone leaves their windows open at this time of year. Luckily, he heard me and managed to scare the possum off after throwing several sticks at it and making as much noise as he could. The silly thing didn't even really run away. It just ran across to the neighbor's little balcony. Good enough for us though. We were able to get our groceries in and close the door.
Possums are really nasty little (big) things. They look like overgrown rats with mangy fur.