Mice...lots and lots of mice. They seem like cute little creatures, all furry and cute. However, there is a darkside to these little fellows. When they invade your house, you're basically screwed. They eat everything!!! Food, papers, clothes, wires and, if they were bigger, they might eat the kids. They also crap on everything. My canned goods, my sweaters, pot and pans - you name it, they crap on it. It's disgusting. I feel like a terrible housekeeper. We've tried everything - Decon, traps (safe traps and the nasty ones that will take off a finger), feeding them to the dog - nothing works. Sooooooooooo...while in Utah this past weekend, we accepted an invitation from Aunt Stephanie to give the kids an early Christmas present - two kitties.
The kitties are too cute! Their names are Percy and Snowflake. Their only drawback is that they like to use my plants for a litter box - oh, and they aren't very friendly which really pisses the kids off. I've just recently fixed the peat moss (aka litterbox) by putting a very decorative piece of aluminum foil around the top. I personally think it's very festive and goes with the Christmas decorations. Kai'le told Grandma that it looked ??? (I'm thinking "white trash") - but hey, whatever works. Anyway, in the two days that we've had our cute new additions, we have yet to hear a mouse in the walls or seen one running around the baseboards. All in all (cat poop in my plants not withstanding), I think the cats are keepers. As for the mice - I hope they die a horrible death. OK, that's a tad on the morbid side but they ate two pounds of chocolate out of my pantry. I'm the only one allowed to eat two pounds of chocolate in this house and actually get away with it.
Enough blogging for now...I'll keep you posted on the mouse situation. If I thought I wouldn't take out a kid - I blast every last one of the little buggers with the shotgun - I'd pay the money to fix the holes :-)
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Hip Hip Hooray! I'm so glad you've started blogging. Oh and the mouse thing...I understand that one, except we have them in our garage. Although I trapped a southern short tailed shrew under the dishwasher yesterday. Yes...a shrew. Weird looking creature. Isn't life wonderful? There's always surprises.
Hi Kristi -
I'm a blogging fool now and it's all your fault. This is pretty cool though. I like it :-) Talk to you soon.
Hi Stacy
What fun to hear about your darling family in the wild and wooly (snowy for now) Idaho. Tiff and co live not too far away from you in Meridian.
Give your folks our best. You mom always sends me cute (and funny) emails. I miss living close to them. Love to all.
Paulie (in SLC)
Hi Paulie -
Glad you checked out the blog. I finally got good internet out here in the boonies and I've vowed to keep this thing as current as I can. Hope you visit often because I love hearing from you. Give our love to Mikey and tell Tiff, Shannon, Brad and all those cute gradkids Hi for us. Take care!!!
S
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