Finally! Found Them All!

When we went to Germany, we came home to find that Aubrey had hidden 54 playing cards of the red and blue bird variety all over our house. Over the next few weeks, I cleaned and searched to rid my house of them, and within a month or so I had found every card but one. One lousy card.

Aubrey tried to give me a hint or two - "I hid one in a pair of pants," "Have you looked in the books Pride and Prejudice and Hamlet?" I looked everywhere and decided that the last one must be in the bookcase somewhere, and since I didn't have time to clean the whole thing out, I decided to leave it for this summer.

This evening I pulled out some of my summer clothing. When I turned a pair of capri pants upside down, guess what fell out of one of the pockets? Voila! The last card. I didn't even know that pair of pants had a pocket, so no wonder I didn't find it earlier. Anyway, finally I can say my house has been exorcised of the evil bird.