As in conversations about frogs who sound like they're having a conversation: the weather has finally cooled off enough that the attic fans shut off and my mother could hear the frogs in the brook making a racket ( Read more... )

Weird day today: started off when I didn't sleep good last night, due to rodents on the ceiling keeping me awake. I had thought that the mice had moved out because of the warmer weather, but they seem to have come back with a vengeance. By the time they quieted down, the birds had started to chirp in the trees outside my bedroom windows, which made ( Read more... )

I caught the maddening mouse that has been rattling in my wall and raising all manner of havoc: set the havaheart trap a week ago, and the little creep flat out refused to go into it. He must have gotten hungry enough or careless enough to go in. Now he's living in a conservation area in Andover, where we let him go. I don't know why I decided to ( Read more... )

While I was getting my breakfast this morning, I looked out the window to see a wren hopping around in the maple tree that hangs over and twines around the railings of our back deck. My dad had hung a small bird house in the branches and sure enough, the wren was exploring the bird house, even crept inside it, little stick-up tail wiggling out ( Read more... )

A quiet spring day: no hours scheduled or otherwise, no errands, just a day I can call my own, so I spent it chilling. Or more specifically, going over a *very* long lists of very unusual writing prompts for an interesting writing challenge: DW's "unconventionalcourtship", featuring romance fics inspired by Harlequin or Mills&Boon type romance ( Read more... )

McDonald's has been offering My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic toys, and so today and yesterday, I treated myself to Happy Meals for lunch. So far, I've gotten Celestia and Rainbow Dash, and I'm hoping to get Luna and/or Twilight Sparkle ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with some penicillin-induced diarrhea (clearing up since I'm eating Greek yoghurt), which means I've been spending a bit more time in ye bathroom than usual: during one of those trips, I noticed a hornet had gotten into the window, and had blundered into a spiderweb in the corner between the wall with the window and the wall where ( Read more... )

This morning, as my mother was watching dishes, she looked out the kitchen window in time to spy ( Read more... )

I was awakened this morning by something thumping in the wall next to one of bedroom windows; thinking it was a mouse, I sat up and started beating on the wall with the flat of my hand. Painful to do, but it generate an incredible amount of noise, calculated to scare away pesky mice. No such luck: the mouse when right on bumping around. I pounded ( Read more... )

The wasp hotel has been demolished: my dad got this powerful foaming spray to blast the nest, then proceeded to poke a big hole in it with what looked like the proverbial ten-foot stick, which got him even more access to the inside of the thing. The swarm was smaller than it was the other night, since he sprayed a bunch of them as they were flying ( Read more... )