If there's only one mouse in the house, it seems to have moved. (Quite right, too - it's fucking cold in the back of the house.) Spotted it last night while watching late night TV (and the crawl of all the school closings... it's so cold I'll actually be staying home instead of making my weekly foray for the crossword in today's newspaper) - it ( Read more... )

...in the makeshift insect habitat (really just one of the larger prescription vials I have hanging around). Discovered a huge click beetle, after I heard two of them clicking back and forth at each other. Or it sounded like there were two (wouldn't surprise me, I've seen at least two other specimens of the big'uns, assuming the roaches I've ( Read more... )