Nature intrudes on softball game

Posted on 04. May, 2006 by kchristieh in environment, my life

I heard a “squeak squeak” at my daughter’s softball game this evening, and saw a dark gray rodent slowly waddling out toward left field. So, I scurried after it, and discovered that it was a broad-footed mole. (Of course, I only figured this out later at enature.com.) It was u-g-l-y and used its powerful snout and broad feet to dig itself into the ground. I grabbed a plastic cookie container from the garbage to put it in, but by the time I returned it had half its body in the ground. Megan’s mom graciously offered me her cashmere scarf to grab its tail with, but I declined, since it was too nice a scarf. And, I couldn’t bother such a hard-working mole.

Ok, so actually, it was pretty gross. And my daughter was standing in left field completely mortified that her mom was squatting down near right field looking at a mole. There’s only so far I should allow myself to embarass her…