I hope everyone had a splendid Thanksgiving.
1. Hump the lady from the "Hoarders" show yesterday. You gave up your son and have had dead cats in your house for 10+ years. WTF! It was comically sad that the maids were having a prayer meeting before entering the house. I am AMAZED. That show cannot be exaggerated. It is the worst of the worst. I cannot get it out of my mind. *shiver*
2. Hump the mice in my attic. I've killed 5 of you in the last 2-3 days and some of you bastards are licking the peanut butter completely off the trap without setting it. Well... I hope you are on your little mouse book leaching off of my wireless network and reading this. I will get you! There is nothing like sitting in a perfectly quiet living room and hearing what sounds like a wiry hairbrush scratching from one side of the room to the other. Could you at least tip toe through the attic at night so I can get some sleep?
3. Hump Duncan Hines for putting misleading directions on the back of their cookie mix. Yeah, I go into Dollar Tree and see some Chocolate Chip cookie mix. I figure for a buck it was a steal. After dinner I forgot what I was doing and asked Crystal, who was reading a book, if she could make the cookies and for about a half hour kept getting the same response. "OK, I will in a second." Finally, to make a point, I storm in the kitchen, pull out the box and decide to make them myself. The directions show a stick of butter and an egg. I start mixing and it really looked like a powder covered clump of butter. That's exactly what it was. I reckon those picture instructions weren't for us men to pick up on because below the picture of a whole stick of butter was the fine print that said I only needed a teaspoon or two. Why not put a picture of 2 teaspoons of butter? Crystal was having a field day with it all and asked, "Why didn't you just put the whole egg in there. That's what the picture shows."
I guess I had it coming.
4. Hump Windows 7. It already has a screen of death. Dang... didn't take long did it. I still have had ZERO problems from my iMac. I couldn't get the disc to eject once but finally figured out how. That's it and it's going on 3 years now. I love that Mac commercial where they go through the various eras of windows and the guy is saying "This isn't going to have ANY of the problems the previous versions of windows had." L O L
5. Hump Black Friday. I know why they call it black Friday now. You have to get up at midnight and stand outside in the freezing pitch black cold hours before the sun comes up so you can be able to get you kids the stuff they like at a price you can manage. Last year we got to Toys R Us at 4 a.m. and were about the 260th people in line. I'm not kidding either. The line went from the door to the edge of the shopping center, made a left hand turn went down the side of the shopping center past the alley and drainage ditch bridge all the way to the complex backed up to the other side of the ditch. It didn't open till 6 and even then they were counting how many people could go in at a time. Grrr. The things people will do for their chillins. This year was a little less hectic but still crazy busy.
Wow. 5 came fast. until next time.
8 comments:
Hey there,
for the mice, try Skippy reduced fat PB on the traps. It's like caulk. We used it in Have A Heart traps for the squirrels we had in the house (yes IN THE HOUSE, fortunately mostly in the basement) and it killed them. Which, technically was an accident, because we were just doing the Squirrel Relocation Program & send them to another town, but it also worked on mousey traps because it's so thick, it takes them longer to get at it and Voila! mousey's last supper.
Use equal parts of peanut butter and plaster of paris, if it's too thick use a little oil to thin it, DON'T USE WATER!
make little balls, place them around the attic and the mice will eat them, the plaster of paris will harden and kill the little monsters.
I worked black Friday at sears and it was snow storming and we still had way to many people show up. some drunk to shop the sales. I refuse to work black Friday again, I have no clue what I was thinking.
I missed the hoarders show because I fell asleep waiting for the dam thing, and now everyone is talking about it at work and I am clueless. : (
Oh no no, that Hoarders show is NOTHING compared to what I've been through with my exes mother. She was actually on the news because when they finally discovered her house, she had a chest freezer full of dead cats and dogs. But that was minor compared to her entire house being covered in animal feces, all over the floor, walls and furniture, even the window sills. I can't bear to watch that show, it brings back way too many bad memories.
I've heard that you put cotton with a few drops of water on mouse traps - they like the moisture and they use the cotton for bedding
Look up RAMIK BARS
The best thing for killing rodents (mice, or rats) is to go to a farm store and buy a product called 'RAMIK BARS'. You break up these bars and put them around the house, in the basement, attic, etc. The rodents eat this stuff and then they dehydrate. There is no smell at all, because these bars dry their body out.
If, or when you find a dead rodent, it will be flat as a pancake with no odor to it at all! Just be sure to put where your pets can't get to them, as they are poisonous. I have been using these bars every fall for the last 10 years or so when the weather starts getting cool, and I haven't seen a trace of a rodent since.
We used to use these in a food warehouse I once worked in, it rid us of a HUGE mice infestation in only a couple of weeks. We would find the dead mice, in various stages of mummification as they totally dry out and do not rot, so there is no smell at all. Much better than decapitated mice.
You could put the poison just in the attic.
We used those little spin traps to catch mice in our house. By the time they get to the peanut butter, it's too late and the trap snaps to kill them...take the trap apart to take out the little bugger and use it again (the box says one use, but we caught 5 in one trap).
I hate mice.
Fix for Windows 7 black screen of death here: http://www.prevx.com/blog/140/Black-Screen-woes-could-affect-millions-on-Windows--Vista-and-XP.html
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