After a day of extreme discomfort where I spent about 16 hours alternating between my bed (where I could lie on my side, it being the only way I could get comfortable) and the bathroom, I am more or less back to normal. I'm going to get another dose of magnesium citrate, though, and stay close to home for most of today. OTOH, I felt good enough ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, it was very quiet as I was working at my desk in the living room. From the kitchen I heard a faint rattling noise. From previous experience, I knew what that probably meant. Putting on my work gloves, I went to the kitchen and hefted the humane mouse trap, from which I could hear skittering sounds. As is my usual practice, I took ( Read more... )

This morning as I started work at 4 AM, I heard a metallic clatter from the kitchen. A mouse was caught in the "Tin Cat" humane mousetrap in the kitchen. I waited until after sunrise, then put on gloves and took the box with the mouse inside it across the street into the railroad yard in order to release it into the field.

( Good Luck and Don't Come Back )