It's not all about me

Did you ever have one of those stretches where you're reminders it's not all about you? Seemingly annoying things make sense rather quickly and it all seems to work for a reason. So yesterday, I had a crummy day. I didn't have any work to do ... nice, but it makes me worry ... and I had tons and tons of laundry to do. With this silly knee, carrying things down the stairs is real hard. I managed to get a dozen loads down the stairs and some we clothes back up. I still have some dry clothes in the car, but that's just the way it is. Any who, I had some chicken cooking in the crock pot, or so I thought. I plugged it in and forgot to turn it on. I cleaned it up real good and brought the yucky chicken down to the trash and noticed....

a scared raccoon in the corner of the dumpster. Poor little guy must have been dumpster diving and fallen in. While I was at the car, a neighbor tossed a plastic bag on top of him. So I was able to get it off of him. I called maintenance and they brought a big board so he could crawl out. Other neighbors saw the little guy in the mean time (between the phone call and delivery of the big stick). So, this morning, it looks like he clawed his way out.

And today I was home for about three minutes in between the church services. It turns out a neighbor was locked out and needed help in knowing what to do...so I was able to tell him about maintenance. So, I guess I got to help a raccoon and neighbor!