I wasn't actually intending to post tonight, but I received a sign from above. Specifically about six inches over my head and climbing. In the shower
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Sadly, no. And right before I went to sleep there was another of those big ceiling thumps. I still have no idea what causes them.
In the addled state that I was in, after knocking it off the curtain and then steeling myself to look out of the shower and see what it was, I did actually apologize to it for punching it.
Hmm.. I think Coons hunt mice too, you know.. It's a thought!
Awww, that's nice of you. This whole post, and your comments, are reminding me of a story I read in Furry Fantastic of a samurai mouse hiding from Ninja rats. It's one to put on your "read some day" list, I think. Lotsa great stories in it.
I didn't even realize there was such a thing as "Furry Fantastic". Cool.
Raccoons are possible and would make more sense than the owls. But I don't really know what they're doing on the roof in the first place, unless there are a lot more mice up there than this one would indicate...
Well, new-ish, from when my brother got married in December? I think I mentioned that, with the red-eye flying to Florida and whatnot? I've been travelling way too much.
Having lived with assorted varmints scratching in the walls and attic, I developed a theory of animal mass to noise ratio. Simply put, animals sound bigger than they are. A mouse sounds like it must be a squirrel, squirrels sound like raccoons, and raccoons...sound like German Shepherds.
That mouse would have freaked me, although had it been a bat, and bats turn up in amazing places, I'd have died immediately.
PS. My husband had a retinal detachment occur spontaneously, with no warning, while he was driving.
You're very right about the animals sounding much larger than they are. As mentioned above by Brenn, something keeps landing heavily on my roof at night. I have no idea what it is or how it's doing it. Now that I think of it -- if there are mice up there, maybe it's one of the owls or something. But it happens surprisingly frequently.
I actually really like bats. One got into my suitemate's room when I was in college. Resulted in a lot of screaming women and whatnot. I wasn't particularly afraid of it for whatever reason -- though didn't touch it, of course. Chased it out into the hall, where it flew around in the stairwell and caused more screaming. It was probably far more terrified than they were.
Ouch on the retinal detachment. Does he have extreme nearsightedness too? I've heard that it can happen if you get an impact to the back of the head...
Bats freak me ever since we found one swimming around in our toilet, late at night. It still creeps me out sometimes when I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
My poor hub has had more than his fair share of trauma to one eye. He used to think it was because he got hit in it with a pine cone when he was a kid, although now he says he doesn't remember which eye got hit. But he's had a macular cyst, a cataract, extreme-near sightedness, and the retinal detachment. He now has early controlled glaucoma, which was caught so early because he spends so much time in the Ophthamologist's office. He also had surgery a few years ago to eliminate some of the scar tissue--which resulted in worse vision, and another procedure where an air bubble was injected, so that he had to lay face down for a week. Fun times.
Holy cow. That sounds completely miserable. I hope his eyes have at least stabilized by now. You've now succeeded in making me nervous about that retinal detachment thing. I find anything to do with eye injury/surgery very creepy.
Yeah, but the problem is that I already have enough human and semi-divine villains with shady pasts and a burning vendetta against God and mankind, so alas, I'll just have to stick with them. :-)
I miss you too. I was sad because I thought I would actually be going to Maryland for this meeting but it turned out to be Austin. But we're likely going to be working with a partner down in Silver Springs, so I will be down there.
How is the new job going?? And thank you for the email, I suck for not responding yet!
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Sleep. And be glad you didn't squish the little mouse. He'll stay behind on the move, promise.
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In the addled state that I was in, after knocking it off the curtain and then steeling myself to look out of the shower and see what it was, I did actually apologize to it for punching it.
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Awww, that's nice of you. This whole post, and your comments, are reminding me of a story I read in Furry Fantastic of a samurai mouse hiding from Ninja rats. It's one to put on your "read some day" list, I think. Lotsa great stories in it.
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Raccoons are possible and would make more sense than the owls. But I don't really know what they're doing on the roof in the first place, unless there are a lot more mice up there than this one would indicate...
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That mouse would have freaked me, although had it been a bat, and bats turn up in amazing places, I'd have died immediately.
PS. My husband had a retinal detachment occur spontaneously, with no warning, while he was driving.
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I actually really like bats. One got into my suitemate's room when I was in college. Resulted in a lot of screaming women and whatnot. I wasn't particularly afraid of it for whatever reason -- though didn't touch it, of course. Chased it out into the hall, where it flew around in the stairwell and caused more screaming. It was probably far more terrified than they were.
Ouch on the retinal detachment. Does he have extreme nearsightedness too? I've heard that it can happen if you get an impact to the back of the head...
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My poor hub has had more than his fair share of trauma to one eye. He used to think it was because he got hit in it with a pine cone when he was a kid, although now he says he doesn't remember which eye got hit. But he's had a macular cyst, a cataract, extreme-near sightedness, and the retinal detachment. He now has early controlled glaucoma, which was caught so early because he spends so much time in the Ophthamologist's office. He also had surgery a few years ago to eliminate some of the scar tissue--which resulted in worse vision, and another procedure where an air bubble was injected, so that he had to lay face down for a week. Fun times.
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I miss you too. I was sad because I thought I would actually be going to Maryland for this meeting but it turned out to be Austin. But we're likely going to be working with a partner down in Silver Springs, so I will be down there.
How is the new job going?? And thank you for the email, I suck for not responding yet!
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