3 Things I learned before 6:30am

1. Being awake at 630am is too early.
2. My dog is really great at pretending she’s asleep when the cat comes in our room in the mornings. Then when she can’t hold her excitement much longer she jumps up like a valasoraptor and starts wagging her tail and jumping as if to say to Fudgee Feet “Good morning Fudgee Feet! I saw you the whole time, let’s play”. To this Fudgee Feet jumps straight in the air and high tails it out of the room. Guess he thinks 630am is too early to play also!
3. Our yard has a lot of snails in it. I think I have a predisposition to liking snails (I know one likes snails, but I think they get a bad wrap). First of all I like pretty much all forms of life (with the one minor exception of snakes which in my personal opinion is not a life form but rather an evil scary slithery creepy thing). Second of all I grew up in Folsom where my favorite city contest was the Great Snail Race (sadly when I went to find a link to this fun event I could not, I am not even sure they still do it). Every year when snail race time would come around the morning of, I’d wake up early to go find my racer. I always picked several, in case one had a hot spot or was caught with steroids and couldn’t race that day. Then I would put them in a shoe box with lots of grass and twigs and lettuce (everyone knows that a snails favorite pre-race food is lettuce) and air holes and off to school I’d go. I never won. Not even in the in class contest but I was always hopeful. Then after the race I always wanted to keep my snails which my mom never allowed (I don’t know why, its not like they were hard to clean up after). Interesting fact snails can sleep for up to 3 years!