Today, I accomplished all of the following:

• pulled down the two ginormous clunky fluorescent light fixtures from our kitchen ceiling that have probably been up there since the original construction of the house thirty-five years ago (made harder than it sounds by the fact that they were adhered to the ceiling, as well as bolted in six places)
  
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So I had it up to here with the mess in the garage and decided to spend a little bit of time clearing out stuff that doesn't need to be there, and I'll be damned if there wasn't a nest back in the back corner, back where I haven't been since pretty much when we moved in here. More importantly, not just any old nest: there was a frickin' dodo bird ( Read more... )

There has been a months-long repainting project going on at our complex. It's just about done; we're among the last buildings being repainted, and they've done everything except the doors. However, to do the front door they need it to remain ajar afterwards for two to four hours while it dries. Today, we're getting our door done and it's going to ( Read more... )

L got another fever and the shits. C got sinus congestion so deep it was physically painful. I got body aches that felt like every bone in my body was broken.

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For consideration: revenge of the Fat Man in Red

At this time, my Success in the Pursuit of having a Dwelling free of the pestilent Rat Menace sitteth upon Pillars which are six in Number, those being one in the Carriage-House and one in the Attic three Weeks past, two more in the Attic whilst Milady and I traveled to the City of York the Newer, one in the Attic found two Christian Sabbaths hence ( Read more... )

The trap in the garage remains unsprung
but the one in the attic, it has come undone,
and twixt wood and metal, what do I see?
Another ex-rodent, less clever than me!

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For consideration: Three more and I'll be an ace.

The first trap is placed this morning, in the garage. Cheese with some peanut butter. I get home tonight and find the bait gone, the trap not even sprung. Little bastards. And then he's RIGHT THERE zipping along the wall of the garage. Up the wall and across the top of the garage door. Fucker! It's not enough that I must hear them scrabbling around ( Read more... )