A thief among us...

Yes, we have a thief among us.

• He is black with cinnamon highlights
• Weighs approximately 5 pounds
• Will abscond with just about a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. you drop, and I mean anything!
• and he is as quiet as a stealth, sometimes we even call him Stealth because of his sneakiness! (He's right there in plain sight one minute, then disappears the next and takes whatever you may have dropped along with him.)

One of his most favorite things to steal is as follows (no, not the green frog):

Speaking of stealing things, just last week, I unpacked a candle from its packaging that the woman at the Hallmark store wrapped ever so nicely for me.  I quickly grabbed what I thought was ALL of the packaging and threw it in the garbage and then proceeded to take the candle (Vanilla Lime, in case you were wondering) to the bathroom and light it.  Not long after, I could hear a certain SOMEONE under our bed shredding some paper product to pieces.  He's smart like that - goes right to the middle of the bed where no one can reach him.  Sure enough, that's exactly what he did.

I figured oh-well, just another "under the bed mess" created by Quincy that Bob will have to clean up when he gets home from work...we've been down this road a couple of times.  I keep telling myself that I need to look online for some funky under the bed gate to prevent you-know-who from going under there in the first place but keep forgetting to do it.  (Note to self: check online for one of those thingy's I just described!)

Sure enough, when Bob got home the contents of what originally was a paper bag were shredded into itty bitty pieces...that explains why Q kept appearing throughout the day with little shreds of paper hanging from his mouth!

Lesson learned:  don't turn your back on anyone possessing Stealth like qualities or you'll be sorry you did!