Okay, for the two of you that found me out here, I'm still a little freaked out, but I'm also laughing. How did you find my one little lousy post?
Hmmm . . . so I'm trying to think of something that would be interesting to write about, and all I can think of right now is mice. Yes, we had mice in our house ladies and gentlemen. We had been hearing scratching noises for a little while, but I was just ignoring them until one night I saw a few brave mice faces and that was it! Our landlords took care of the problem right away, but not before we had discovered that the mice don't like sugar--they like nuts. At the time (we have since aquired a storage unit-yay!) all of the candy for our business was sitting out in our sun porch, but nothing had been disturbed. Then as I was clearing out clutter in our dining room I found a bag of boston baked beans (just plain candy coated peanuts) ripped open and a pile of empty candy shells in the corner of one of our chairs. (These shells were also accompanied by "droppings" of sorts, but we won't go into details here.)
Well, the mouse traps came in and those smarmy little pests have all been evicted. All was forgiven, or so I thought. This last Saturday afternoon I was waiting around for Joel to get off the computer so we could run some errands and I decided to sit down at the piano and tinker around. I noticed that the keys kept sticking and was really upset at myself for neglecting to ever have my piano tuned or maintained. Then I decided to see if I could see what the problem was and opened the lid. Low and behold, it was a mouse smorgusbord. Yes, the mice decided that the best place to eat their candy coated peanuts and leave their droppings was INSIDE my piano!!!! I was livid! I wanted to find the mice and choke them while telling them that the piano was not a play toy! I vacuummed up everything I could find, but there is still tons of sticky candy shells and droppings all in the small parts I couldn't reach. Joel says he's going to take it apart himself and see what he can clean up. What a mess!
So how is that for a post my happy blog stalkers?!
3 comments:
Yey! A new place to go and distract myself from my obligations.... ;o) Thanks for posting. Actually, the stalking abilities aren't as impressive as you think: You commented on my blog. Your name shows up as a link to your profile and your profile has a link to this blog. Took me a little while to figure out I was that traceable, too, though. Also means though that you have to leave the traces for people to follow.
Thanks for letting me know about your blog. Your living problems sounds a little too familiar and make me think of a simpler time and place back when we live in BC. Different pest I know, but still give you the creeps.
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Oh, no! Mice are trouble. They get into everything!
I'm sorry about your piano, but it did make for a lively blog story. :)
Keely! I miss you! And Joel! (But mostly you!) ;)
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