Tonight Sally and I were madly doing a quick house cleaning before the girl scout meeting at our house tonight, and Sally says to me as I have the vacuum in hand as she is dusting the mantle above the fireplace, "What are these? Maybe you better vacuum them, they look too big to dust ( Read more... )

We recently had a grain moth infestation that was getting out of hand.  They came in with the cockatiel food (we have subsequently purchased a brand that supposedly treats the seeds with nitrogen first to kill all the larvae, we will see!), but despite the new bird seed, scented moth traps, the cats chasing and eating the moths, and all of us ( Read more... )

As I was finishing getting into my PJs tonight, Kat came to the door and said "Dad, I have a job for you". Usually this is code for there is something gross that needs doing, and so I am asking you to take care of it ( Read more... )

Amelia loves to sneak into our basement, where she got into trouble a while ago eating some old hidden mouse poison she found down there ( Read more... )