I'll bet he smelled great too!!! Don't think that would be my "cup of tea" either, You would hear me screaming 1 county away!!! I like my critters alive & at a distance!! Enjoyed your story!1 Thanks! Jan

What a great story...I love it!!

~Sandy~

Great story! Sounds like the kind of thing my parents would have pulled on my brother and me when we were young!

Good story!
My Dad used to put a possum in the garbage can and then send the kids-anybodies kids-out to put a piece of trash in it. Of course, the possum would hiss and the kids would jump! I don't know haw many times Daddy caught the same possum-It had scars and was easy to recognize.

How funny....

oh my! Bears & possums & scaring the kiddies! Loved the stories.
Vickie

That sounds like something I would do to my kids. LOLOLOL (However, I'm not much of a bear hunter. ha)
My Grand Father was born on April Fools Day and he acted a fool for the rest of his life. Totally ruined 2 generations that followed.

Life is so-o-o-o-o serious that if you cant find a reason to laugh you need to conjure one up!!!!!!! Makes great memories.

Susie

I loved your story, Luna!! I bet your folks were ROFL on that one!!!!!!Thx for sharing yours too, nona! I dont like possoms, that hissin thing scares the fire outta me!!!
blessings-sherri

I left a trash barrel out back & it had a few leaves in it & rain was coming so thought I would dump the leaves & put the lid on it. It was late afternoon & starting to sprinkle. I looked to see how full it was & there was a possum, I rolled it some & it sure looked dead. Ugh!! So now this thing is going to start rotting in my leaves & I'll have to dump it all- imagining a very stinky mess!! I banged on it with a stick & laid it on it's side it case it wasn't dead & wanted out, even went & got a flashlight & got off to the side as figured if it was alive it would come out of there like it was shot out of a cannon when the light hit it, NOthing, dead for sure. I figured it fell in & had died at least 1-2 days before. Rain lasted several days & by time I got out there again I was trying to figure out how I was going to stomache all this, I peered inside & couldn't see anything, got the flashlight to see under the water better but nothing there. That critter had gotten away & fooled me playing dead, he had to crawl out of a plastic 40 gal trash container so I don't know how he held on. I was glad I didn't have to deal with him. Yrs before I walked out front door to get the newspaper & hanging on the vine was this critter upside down,I screamed! DH said I probably scared poor possum half to death!! Just stay alive & go home is my motto for critters!!! Jan

Speaking of possums....(this is susiewantsroses other half) Susie and I returned home from dinner one night and to our amazement our dogs had brought a possum in through the dog door and left it curled up in front of our TV set in the living room. They (the dogs) were so proud of themselves and the possum certainly looked dead to us. Susie wanted me to go out and bury it but it was too late for digging holes. I put it in a plastic garbage bag and tied the top in a knot. I intended to dig the hole the next morning to bury the poor creature that had probably been through quite a fight with our dogs. Well as you can guess the next morning there was the plastic bag with the bottom ripped out where the possum had clawed his way out and escaped. What a surprise that was to us, it was playing some good possum that night....

Wow!! Interesting story DH of Susie!! Now we know the expression "playing possum" is very accurate! I once went out to see if I had locked side gate & "cornered" one & he hissed at me,I shot back into the house. I've seen on TV where they can be very mean so I guess if they play dead & you act like they are they probably won't harm you. But if you poked them with a stick of something they might just attack. I imagine the possum in your bag was OK with it all until breathing got hard & then he got out fast!! Amazing ! Jan

Yuck! I dislike possums also...here's my story...Many, many (probably a hundred years ago) we had something killing our chickens "in the chicken house" and the doors were shut...but it's an old bldg. So my DH set traps...well, one day (he was at work) I went out to feed & water & here was this ugly animal snaring in the trap. UGH!! I called my DH at work to return a call during his lunchtime.

Well, he told me to just get the rifle and go out and SHOOT IT!!! (so it wouldn't get loose before he got home). UGH!!UGH!! I do not "shoot" anything...couldn't even learn to do the pheasant-hunting thing in those young married years. So, anyway, I get his rifle and go out and standback about a car length from the trapped possum and I shoot several bullets. Well, that did it! He lay there and it was all over with!

My DH got home and got a shovel to bury it...but low & behold, that ol' possum started snarling at him!!! Good grief, woman! I had shot that possum lookin' thru the scope on his rifle! (so I didn't know that would throw off my aim!) Needless, to say, I never hit him once! That's my possum story, and I'm stickin' to it! Do not like those critters! Jeanne S.

I could maybe pass for "Annie Oakley" (cir 1950)but I ain't no "Rifleman!"
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Fun Story Jeanne!!!!
Adorable little precious girl with her "Routin' Tootin' Cowgirl Duds" on!!!! What's that up on your left shoulder?

Susie

Loved the bear story Luna ... I see where you get that *wicked* sense of humor LOL!

And the possum stories ... all funny ... you know why they say "playin' possum". I saw one crawling under my deck last summer, it scaled this concrete wall to get under the deck. I was down in the yard and thought when I saw it out of the corner of my eye "that's not a cat ... they can't scale walls" Ewww! LOL

Jeanne, such a cutie pie! That house looks like my maternal GMs house, except her covered porch was on the side, and was was screened, not glass. And it had the prettiest pine grove to the right of the house, that's where we had so many Easter Egg hunts, etc. Love those old photos! I need to find the disk where we have lots of our scanned pics.

~tenderlee

Nothing on my shoulder, susieroses, unless it's "attitude!" I zoomed in and couldn't see anything...my Mom probably made this outfit ...she sewed everything for us kids! And lots of times we had "matching outfits!" Bless those good Moms who made do with so little! Jeanne S.

Speaking of possums, you will not believe this 1! It's in todays "DAily News" A call went out about an injured possum collapsed in from of apt. complex. L.A. Dept of Animal Services responded. They found the marsupial wrapped in blankets & kids defending it. The animal was wheezing. They took it to woman named Varvarigos who rescues animals & she took it to 2 vets in Woodland Hills. They did surgery for it's 9 mm bullet hole that seemed to have gone all over. Went in forehead through sinus,broke jawbone & lower jaw. May need 2nd surgery total cost about $9,000!!!!!!! This is Los Angeles where they take hospital patients dump them out of wheelchairs back onto streets in downtown . Wonder if poor critter will have headache rest of his life-guess he can't tell them!! Jan

Jeanne- It must be your hair on your shoulder in the pic.
I have made a cowgirl suit for my little grand daughter that I dont get to see anymore. :o( Hubs made a stick horse to go with it. He put a wheel at the bottom end of the stick. Fun Fun Fun!!! Forever memories.

Susie