Since I've been painting such a rosy picture of life here over the past few weeks, there were a few incidences today that made me remember that I do still live in an old house in a pest infested town.
For the second day in a row, I opened my desk drawers in my office this morning to find quite a mess. There are creatures (either mice or rats - probably the latter) have quite the jamboree INSIDE the locked office drawers at night. Who knew that rat pee could be so yellow? Seriously, it's absolutely disgusting. I had to bleach my calculator, and somehow, doing my finance work will never quite be the same again. I'm rather thankful for anti-bacterial hand soap, as well.
As if cleaning up the rat latrine that my desk drawers have become wasn't enough, this evening I had another surprise when I went to make a yummy new recipe (found in "More with Less", of course) using eggplants, eggs and green peppers. The saucepan, with the LID tightly screwed on, was home to a mid-sized cockroach, who just couldn't quite make his way up the sides of the pan to make his escape. Ew, is all I have to say. Once again, I'm thankful for the pan of bleachy water that was left over from cleaning my veggies earlier.
Of course, on my way to the bathroom to wash my hands with more of the antibacterial soap, I almost stepped on an even BIGGER roach that was in the middle of dying in the hallway. When I turned on the light in the bathroom, I saw a very much alive one scuttling away on the bathroom counter. Sigh, no matter what we do, we just can't seem to get rid of them. I think, however, some of the powder that we put out for them must be working, as we keep finding dead ones in the hallway!
Maybe I need to start keeping hedgehogs in the house - they'd hunt out those roaches pretty quick. On that note, I'm going to bring Zane up to the office to spend the night there. Maybe he'll be able to interrupt that little rat jamboree up there and save my calculator from another wet night!
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