This is pre-coffee, so bear with me! Sometimes when I read what I wrote without coffee, I wonder what was going through my head!
Yesterday I almost finished my queen sized Red/White/Black quilt. Today - just the borders and it will be a Ta-Da!! moment! Then I'll clean up my sewing room. I haven't trashed it as badly as I usually do but it still needs quite a bit of attention. Tonite our Seattle Seahawks are playing Mary Q's MN Vikings in a pre-season game. We, of course, have a little side-bet going . .
Go Hawks! Speaking of Mary Q, did you see she is going to get Secret Santa up and running this week? She is already accepting names of people who want to participate.No word from any of Vicki's kids regarding the rats. We watched for them yesterday and they didn't visit their mom. Maybe today. Could be they already know about the problem. I mean really - with all the food garbage she has been tossing out for the past 4 years, either for composting or for feeding 'wildlife', it was only a matter of time before the rats showed up, right? We do notice, though, that the yard has been cleaned up the last 3 times we've inspected. Only a few KFC containers last week and egg shells this week. And I saw an unfamiliar man in a pick-up there a few days ago. He was only there a few minutes and when he left, he was carrying something in a red plastic bag. Maybe a dead rat? Perhaps he was an unmarked externintor? The kids did buy her a composting bin but she never used it. Instead she dismantled it, and shoved the pieces into the engine compartment of her car which is parked and moldering at the edge of the back woods. This week we will file another report with APS. It won't help but it's all we can think to do because health dept and code enforcement won'd do anything. Plus, we stocked up on rat traps!
Tomorrow they come to start laying our new floors! Yay!! It will take most of the week, we're told. Today Bill is going to remove our hot water heater so until they finish the flooring, we'll be showering in the trailer and using paper dishes in the house.
IRISH - yeah, your idea of alerting the local media for a story on next door has occurred to us. We are suffering from compassion fatigue (we just learned about that and now it's our catch phrase around here!) and don't really care any more if the family is embarrassed or not. Except for about an hour a week, they ignore their mom. Not that she hasn't brought it on herself . . . You really had a blow-out birthday! I'd have been there myself if the cake had been vanilla . . .
A whole box of Sno-balls?? You lucky!! And the eagles are returning to their nest? For a second go-round this year? do they usually do that?BECCA - good news on the twins. Let's hope they keep it up. Caring for CA keeps you on your toes. My DB didn't need oxygen, but he didn't walk well. And his Parkinsons meds caused hallucinations. Whenever my SIL left him alone the hallucinations would take over and he'd end up falling and breaking a bone or taking a walkabout and getting lost. So either someone had to stay with him or he had to go along. It's a full-time job, being a caretaker.
Our pizza last night was good and we have the second half for tonite. We stocked up on fresh veggies so salad will be on the menu, too. Happy suppertime!