Mice

We have a mouse problem. I don’t expect to have one for long though……

Folks we bought the house from had a pair of energetic Yorkies (little guys, I doubt they’re more than 5lbs a piece) which I’m sure the mice were thrilled to see the last of.

We had a minor incursion over the winter, some mouse sign in one cabinet. Some traps solved the problem and we’d not seen them since though we left the traps in place.

I guess the rain has finally flooded them out of their home. Today I looked in the cabinet and discovered that two of the traps had caught a mouse….and just about 30 minutes ago Janie was going nuts trying to catch one in one of the puppy free corners of the house. It escaped her by dodging under the puppy barrier only to be greeted by said puppy who’d been trying to figure out what all the noise was about…..theres one less mouse in the world tonight.

As I type this Janie is attempting to digg her way under a set of shelves and the puppy is sitting ever so patiently outside the puppy barrier hoping for another snack!


Rain

Syracuse is barely .56 of an inch away from breaking the record for the wettest April.  Now I’m far enough out of Syracuse I cant’ say for sure that those figures are an accurate represenatation of what fell at my house this month, but when you add in the fact that my property is very wet to begin with due to its location it might as well be.  AND we’ve got more “strong to severe” thunderstorms moving through later today.

Really, what is it about trying to break records this year?  First snow, now rain…..farmers can’t plant crops because the fields are so soaked, folks with sheep haven’t been able to shear because the sheep haven’t been able to dry out AND temps are due to hit upper 70’s today…..my yard NEEDS mowing, but I sink past my ankles in mud when I walk on it so I can’t.  Arg!!


A friend’s webstore, and a new place to buy nice stuff

A friend of mine, up in Canada finally opened up her own website and store to sell the soaps, lotions and other skin care products she’s been making for friends and family for years.

Beach Baby

I’ve been using her hand soaps for years, and given them to friends and family for all sorts of occasions. The one lipbalm I tried I liked quite a bit, but I have to admit that I’ve not tried the rest of the stuff, mostly for lack of a tub till recently.

Take the time to take a look please, if you have a question the email (as well as shipping info) is under the Contact-terms and policies page. Or you can ask me and I’ll do my best to pass it along.


To the spammer who….

….is sending out spam coupons for a bulk ammo company.  Not only will I not print your name or company name, I have informed Google that you are a spammer.  This only barely qualifies as a gun blog for all that I read bunches of them, and I’m sure as heck not going to click on a link, much less expect my readers to do so, of an unsolicited spam email.


Ok everyone using WordPress blog……Part 2

Unless you have enabled the Onswipe theme for iPads & iPhones because you have one and like the look could you please disable it? Instruction in the comments here.. I suspect this option is automatically turned on because it appeared on so many blogs at the same time. Personally, as someone who often reads blogs from her iPad I hate it and I cannot disable it as a reader. Please?!?