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Well, I have to say- this year I out did myself..
Nov 22, 2009 | 2:09 AM PST
Tag: its turkey time..

Accidently, on purpose, as I tell my daughter. She looked up on my overhead beam around Sept.,in the living room, and I had a pretty big cobweb growing.She let a blat out of her,which was halarious in itself.She told me I should really take the cobweb down,but I said no,because them I'd have to do the whole room and didnt have time just then.I said, believe me, I have more....

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ith Halloween coming up, I decided to leave them in place,and really you would have been proud of me for growing such a big beauty...she was turning inside out,,and it just made me laugh harder.I knew after Halloween I would spend the afternoon cleaning.So I did yesterday.All the cobwebs are gone,*sigh*...that one was really amazing, and I didn't get a pic.Well, I didnt have to buy any decorations,which I thought was pretty cool.She didnt see the humor in it.oh- well..., On to the holidays,Jim cleaned the ceiling fan for me,and I dusted, and started putting out a few decorations.We've had a mouse in the house.We leave the cellar door open for the heat to rise better into the kitchen.He finally went and got a trap,as the daughter saw something out of the corner of her eye the other day.I said dont worry its just the mouse,but thats funny,usually he doesnt come around till I get up at 3 a.m. in the morning,to scope out the pantry.She says, that was one big mouse,I said ya, he's a chubby little bugger,eating my potato chips,which I now have a container for.Well, other than the skunk in the cellar a few years ago story,,we havent had a problem with critters except an occasional mouse.No-, never in my wildest dreams, did I ever think any other critter would bother to venture in-especially up the cellar stairs.Needless to say, I was a little more than freaked out,and up on the breakfast counter is where I sat,,when Jim said-{I was on the comp},"that aint no mouse...".I said, then what the hell is it,? walking into the kitchen,,he says its behind Landons chair, and just then a freaking rat went racing across the floor.I'm pretty sure I let out some kind of noise and swear word,,and up on the counter I went.I've never seen a rat in person,but I knew what it was from pictures.So there I sat -all big-eyed,and refused to come down from my safe perch, till my hero went to the store and bought traps & hand grenades.oh- my, I only had 1/2 a cig,I had snuffed out, no valium or whiskey on board,,and my packs were in the laundry room-which is where that thing was headed.I made him get me my slippers before he headed out-I dont know what that was suppose to do for me,but made me feel better.I didnt move till he got back-then made him go fetch my cigs.I said its highly unlikely you will have clean clothes till that things caught....Well- he started plugging some holes{the two drain pipes in the bathroom where we tore out the old shower},after the thing is caught, he will cut the drain pipe in the cellar for a permanent fix. Mice certainly make me skittish enough, I just cant wrap my mind around this thing or anything bigger than a mouse. It looked to me like 8 inches long, and he was on a dead run, so I'm sure more scared of us then we of him.We think he went down the drain pipe hole.Anyways, now- the cellar door is staying shut, and heat will have to come up the chimney hole section.At this point, I'm not even sure if I can go down cellar to stoke the stove now without drugs in my system....