Category: housekeeping
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counting
So no mouse this morning, or yesterday morning, or Wednesday morning. One mouse Tuesday morning, none Monday. I guess the mouse problem in the basement is not nearly as bad as I thought it was. Either that, or I caught all the dumb ones, and the smart ones have figured out how to take the Read.
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mousey
I’m trying to find the best way to dispose of mice. We have what seems to be an entire legion of mice in our basement. I forget how many Roman centurions that is; let’s say, for the sake of argument, that it’s a hundred. I have no trouble at all believing there are a hundred Read.
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changeup
My Darling B has a whole new attitude about mice since she opened her garden shed and discovered they’d pooped and peed on just about everything in there. Before she was on Mother Nature’s side, making me trap them live so we could release them in a nearby city park, but now that she has Read.
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frivolity
While pouring gallons of coffee down my neck this morning, I ran through the long list of frivolous things I could do with my day off, but kept coming back to one non-frivolous thing that’s been crying for my attention since the end of summer: clean up the basement. In particular, the corner of the Read.
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kaZAM
For my final trick today, I’ll make this box spring disappear. Abra kadabra … … ala kaZAM! Nothing left but the mattress. Am I good or what? Read.
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honeydew
There are just three things I have to do this morning, according to She Who Must Be Obeyed. Make more coffee Put away the clean dishes and load the dirty dishes in the dishwasher Get the storage tub with the holiday tablecloth up from the basement “It should only take you a couple of minutes,” Read.
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rodentia
The other night, B opened a kitchen drawer and discovered that the mousies in Our Humble O’Bode have been going to the trouble of climbing all the way up to the top drawers to run around on the utensils and chew on the corks. She didn’t find an actual mouse, but she did find a Read.
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