I’ve been here long enough. I know becuase suddenly, the animals, they love me again!

It all started a few days ago when I looked out my back door all non-challant-like and saw a crayfish in my pool swimming around and waving. I was all “kids, look! Now take him home” which they did (home being the lake across the street, incidentally. Not home as in the Big Home Up In The Sky, just in case you think I’m *that sick*). I didn’t get a picture but how dumb would a picture of a crayfish be in a pool?

Now there are deer popping up like, hrm, what pops up? Toaster strudel? Like that. It started in the most bizarre way which taught me a lesson called “always ALWAYS take the camera, even if you are only going out for dinner”. The entrance into our town is decorated with these bronze herds of deer. Mostly standing, but also one is jumping. We pass them practically daily without a thought. But this time, on the way home from dinner, we passed by and I noticed one of the deer was brown. Right there in the middle of the bronze herd was a very real stunned and clearly confused doe. I think she was trying to make friends. Or blend in. Or something.

Since then, we have seen deer almost every time we go out. Last night we saw a deer right across the street from our subdivision, right on the street, eating away. Super-duper. Because how cool would it be to go out and get the paper and be stared down by a deer? I’m probably still having some PTSD from my last deer encounter, that’s all.

We went down to the Gulf yesterday for a few hours. I stayed at the shore with the baby until I was all “Me and Addy are going SWIMMING! Watch out people!” and started wading out. I was in water up to my knees when I looked down and saw the largest shelled animal EVER dodging about waving at me before taking off. To be fair, I took off in one direction while he - or she - took off in the opposite direction. Swimming is not for the faint of heart. Of course my adoring family thinks I’m smoking something too good to share becuase why would there be a very large crab/lobster/thing swimming around in the midst of a pretty busy beach? HELLO!?! This is me you are talking about. I don’t make this stuff up.

So I thought you would all like to know that the Animal Magic has returned, Texas-style.

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