Who gets up at 5:45 am after going to bed at 1:30 am and didn’t take any naps? Weird, I know…but it was me! Trying to be as quiet as a church mouse is the challenge since I want to make the most of this awake and alert time. Time to clean up and clear out some stuff for next weekend’s family get together. I moved the fire wood from the living room – no stove anyway – out onto the back deck. As I got to the bottom, which is an old wooden crate, I noticed something moving around. Well it was 4 little, itty bitty baby mice. GROSS! Luckily, just has the heebie-jeebies set in, all the noise I made woke Carlo up and he took the box outside to dump them out. One was on the carpet but he scooped that up with a trowel. Once he threw them outside, I covered them with a rock…they didn’t die, they just burrowed deeper into the sand, but I didn’t have to look at them! This new home they were dumped in will only be for one more week! Good-bye fire pit!
We cleared up some unneeded things we had accumulated, ate breakfast then went to pick up our fire pit, return some things, buy some things, including many mouse traps!
By the time we got started on the installation of the concrete boards, it was already 12:30. We worked on that project until 4:30 and then made a quick run down to the neighbors.
We didn’t get a chance to put the stone up on the walls; but why rush and mess it up?
Now that fall is upon us, we set out all the mouse poison, glue traps and Jaws – actually hoping to get the mother that was scurrying about and seeking refuge under the kitchen sink.
We went to bed by 9:30. It was a pretty long day!
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