TOTALLY GEEKED!

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

Finally Friday!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Good for you!

I work Saturday & Sunday.

flan

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

3 day weekend!!! This is a clothing weekend. I'm doing laundry, sewing buttons, cleaning closets, and dealing with my "too many clothes" problem.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

LL, I have emotional attachments to some of my clothes.

Donate the dress I wore to DS1's christening & DH1's funeral? NOPE.

flan

tlc · Regular

I will have a 4 day weekend. I work today, but I'm off until next Wednesday.

I am staying home this weekend. I think my mom is probably mad that I didn't go up to the lakes to be with the family, but I just don't enjoy sleeping in a little tiny room in an uncomfortable bed, or worse, the couch. Then there's the no privacy for 3 days and 15 people around all the time. It is also difficult for me to get up and down the stairs outside and up to the bedrooms. They are really narrow and steep. I'm just getting to the age where I won't do something if it is going to totally stress me out if I don't have to.

I plan on cleaning the house since it has been neglected this summer. I also think I have a dead mouse somewhere, so I'll be looking for it.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Oh tlc, I hear you. I think I have LIVE mouses! I keep seeing flashes in my peripheral vision. I know those little suckers move fast. I'm dreading trapping them. Ugh.

tlc · Regular

They gross me out. I only saw one, but since that one was caught, I've seen further evidence of them, like on an end table. I've had a weird smell in the house this last week, so I think I have another dead one. I'm going to have to move things around in the pantry, which is where I think it is. Luckily no food in there, just a closet right now. We usually don't get mice in the summer because they are too busy living out in the corn and bean fields, but it has been extremely wet this year. Not even the snakes that live around my house have gotten them.

I never had mice until I had my house re-insulated and a central air unit put in. My dad thinks they are coming in through a gap around the hose that goes into the house for the a/c unit.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I just set out my traps. I really really hate catching mice. But I hate sharing my house more. We have a lot of empty land around here. But whenever they start building the mice come running. I hate it.

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

I don't have live critters but my cats like to bring me their kill. They are so thoughtful.

ed11563 · Guru

tlc wrote:
They gross me out. I only saw one, but since that one was caught, I've seen further evidence of them, like on an end table. I've had a weird smell in the house this last week, so I think I have another dead one. I'm going to have to move things around in the pantry, which is where I think it is. Luckily no food in there, just a closet right now. We usually don't get mice in the summer because they are too busy living out in the corn and bean fields, but it has been extremely wet this year. Not even the snakes that live around my house have gotten them.

I never had mice until I had my house re-insulated and a central air unit put in. My dad thinks they are coming in through a gap around the hose that goes into the house for the a/c unit.

Get some copper wool (like steel wool but won't rust), stuff some into the gap, and then fill in with insulating foam or silicone sealer.

The critters will try to chew through the foam, but the copper wool will make that very unpleasant for them.

Also I've gotten "rodent repellent", which is granulated (dehydrated) fox and bobcat pee, and spread that around the outside of the house where I figured they might try to get in. It seems to work, but it needs to be redone after every rainstorm.

Don't buy any rodent repellent that contains mint. It doesn't drive mice away, they seem to enjoy the smell.

The plug-in rodent repellent gadgets are a waste of money. I'd be happy to send you mine.

Ed

tlc · Regular

I think my dad is going to put putty in the hole that will get hard and will mold around the hose, so it shouldn't be an issue once he does that. I have heard about steel wool being used. It just really ticks me off since I did the renovations last year to seal the house up. That was the only thing that we didn't check I guess. I better not have any more this winter.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Yeah tlc, gotta fix that spot before winter. They love to come in when it'd cold.