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Posted by juliekendall on October 27th, 2007 in General

Yep….we had an interesting day yesterday. It started out with Craig and Lily having an early morning adventure. Craig noticed that Lily was sniffing with great concentration at the bottom of my NEWLY made dining room curtains. After some careful investigating, Craig discovered that there was a MOUSE hiding away inside MY CURTAINS!!! Fortunately…Lily is more of a sniffer than a hunter so Craig was able to catch the mouse running between the curtains on the other window in our dining room. The mouse is now in Mousey Heaven ( may his tail grow eternally shorter! ).

After our morning safari, we decided we needed to mow the yard. I do wish I had a picture for you. We have an ELECTRIC lawn mower. I wanted to mow this time and really did enjoy the experience. Actually…I really should say that I “cut the grass” rather than mowed the lawn. We don’t really have what most people in the South would consider a yard. It’s more like a Grass Patch. However, I must say that the yard looks pretty good. And I only almost mowed over the extension cord a couple of times. Craig was outside with me….watching me at first. Then I sort of ….suggested…to him that he really didn’t have to watch me if he had other things he needed to do. Next thing I know, he is picking up rocks that have rolled out of the landscaped area and pulling some dead grass in places. No…I didn’t buy it either. However, knowing my history and the fact that I live under a 2% cloud (”this__________ [fill in the blank with any bad, weird or gross thing] only happens to 2% of the population”), I really can’t blame him for watching “behind” my back!!

So….we’ve had a mouse adventure and a “high risk” event for electrocution so surely the day can only get better…right? HA!

Since we moved in, we have just not had the time to clean and disinfect the basement. There were evidently a family that rented our house for a month or two right before we bought it. You really couldn’t tell that anyone had ever lived here except for some interesting and colorful “areas” on the cement floor. Evidentially, some people mistake the word “basement” for “bathroom” concerning the animals they have as pets. So there were several little “packages” and tons of yellow patches and drippings on the floors and lower parts of the walls. YES….it was a MALE dog and he HAD to mark his territory as high as his little 3-5 inch legs would let him!!!). After asking pet stores and vets what they thought would kill the scent completely (we didn’t want Lilly thinking it was her bathroom too)we felt we knew what to do. The answer? Bleach. Well, Craig fills a sprayer with half bleach and half water, we don our “surgeons” masks, grab a fan and down we go. Several minutes later….down I nearly went! Yeah…asthma and bleach don’t go together very well. As it turns out…bleach fumes are all over our house now. Craig’s actually happy because it only smells like a swimming pool now. I’m not. Breathing is unpleasant (when I can actually take a breath) and my throat still feels like I drank the dang bleach!!!

So I went to bed last night with the following prayers: “Please let me still be alive on EARTH and have two good functional lungs in the morning Lord…thank you very much. I would also appreciate a couple of dozen extra guardian Angels when I’m electrically cutting the grass. Oh…and if the mouse had friends or relatives staying over, could You please send them to the basement without a face mask (may their tails be eternally shorter)? Amen