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May 06, 2008
hansel & gretel - 10:14 AM
finally got some good pics of them. hansel is the brightly coloured one & gretel is the pale coloured one.
March 25, 2008
dead cat - 01:28 PM
yesterday, when i was on the way to rudi & audrey's place to pick up smiley after a sleep over to take him to an easter monday fair, i drove past a dead cat right in the middle of the road.
it was pretty obviously already dead, but i didn't want the poor thing to get all mashed by cars. it was on the painted line in the middle of the road, so it probably wouldn't have been squished, but if someone didn't see it as they were changing lanes, they might have run over it.
so i stopped the car & backed up a bit to go & get it.
i guess it was hit in the head, because when the traffic finally abated enough for me to go out into the middle of the road, i saw that one of its eyes had sort of popped half way out. yick. poor cat.
it must have happened a few hours earlier (maybe in the early morning) because when i picked it up by the legs it was already stiff. it was kind of gross when i heard, or maybe just felt, a cracking sound in one paw (around its ankle if cats have those) as i lifted it. not sure if it was just clicking or actually breaking, but it grossed me out, regardless.
i took it over to the side of the road & said a little prayer as i drove off. it looked in fairly good health, so it may have belonged to someone, but it wasn't wearing a collar. wherever it was from, i'm glad it wasn't going to be turned into minced cat. i'm not a big fan of cats, but no dead creature deserves to be desecrated quite like that.
February 06, 2008
cricket porn - 09:04 PM
i think there are a couple of crickets having sex under some boxes in the corner of my dining room. they're singing loudly, but also making some other very odd crickety sounds.
lol! 
November 22, 2007
cockroach - 05:27 PM
last night, in the early morning, a cockroach crawled over my head & down my face. i woke up properly when it crawled over my lips. yech!
i don't often see many cockroaches around here. only the occasional one, & never before in my bedroom.
after it woke me up, i saw it crawling across the bed in the dark & realised what it was. i had to flick the gross thing away twice before it went away. disgusting creature.
it took me ages to get back to sleep after that because i kept waiting for it to come back, & every little tickle i felt i thought was the cocky.
August 19, 2007
huntsman pic - 12:13 PM
a pic of the huntsman in my sink for your viewing pleasure.
i'm still trying to figure out how i'm going to get it out of the sink without touching it. *shudder*
dead spider in the kitchen sink - 10:18 AM
i just found the spider. it scared the crap out of me by climbling out of the large sink as i was rinsing something in the little sink next to it.
i just used up about a week's worth of water trying to flush it away down the plug hole (which didn't work anyway, because it's that big!). just as well i wasn't planning on a hot shower this morning.
so now, not only do i feel like a murderer, but i feel like a totally environmentally hostile murderer .. & the evidence is sitting half stuck in the plug hole in the kitchen sink to remind me.
maybe i do need a man around the house after all. i'm strong enough to lift heavy things on my own, but for big, ugly, hairy spiders, men come in really handy for that.
August 18, 2007
huntsman - 11:19 PM
there's a huntsman spider downstairs somewhere. he ran across the lounge floor a few times when i was watching doctor who.
ugh. i hate spiders.
July 16, 2007
poor bindie - 02:02 PM
i just found out from melanie that they're taking their dog, bindie, to the vet .. to be put down. poor bindie. she's really sick & can't even stand up anymore. as melanie & i & everyone knows, she's doing the very best thing for bindie, but that doesn't make it any less sad for her, especially since poor old jeffrey had to be put down just a little while ago.
goodbye, bindie. rest in peace.
June 24, 2007
dead bird - 03:29 PM
a bird just flew into our back window, or maybe the glass doors, & broke his neck. he was still alive for a minute or so & when smiley & i held him on our laps he started to move his head around, so i thought maybe he was okay after all.
.. but then his body jerked a few times & he closed his eyes & was gone. smiley didn't seem to be too bothered at all, but i'm a bit sad that he died. with hardly any back yard to speak of & no tools to dig a hole anyway, i wrapped him in newspaper & put him in a box before placing him gently in the bin outside.
r.i.p, little birdie.
October 17, 2005
black water - 08:31 AM
i emptied the kettle the other day after a few days where i hadn't made any cuppas for myself or anyone else because i'd been flat out doing other stuff. there have been so many ants around lately. not because of any mess that i've left out, but because they've been looking for water. when i took the lid off & looked in, the water was literally black with dead ants.
.. & shroom had been using this same kettle water for days.
ergh!!
October 13, 2005
new home for the dog - 11:12 AM
since we're moving overseas, we have to find a new home for the dog. i put an ad in the paper yesterday, but haven't had any calls at all yet. it's not looking good.
to look on the positive side, the paper only comes out twice a week, so people might still be buying/reading it, so someone might call. if not though, we'll have to take him to the pound & hope someone will want him. however, the chances of people wanting a grown up dog are not high when he's put up beside all those cute little puppies. if no one wants him from the pound after a certain amount of time then it's not good news for him at all .. 
June 24, 2005
two down, one to go? - 10:06 PM
mcgarnicle caught the first mouse, the second mouse i discovered inside the underneath of the fridge & got him with a mouse trap two nights ago .. & now i just saw a third one scurrying away when i turned my head.
out comes the mouse trap again.
June 19, 2005
more than one - 09:42 AM
well, as i should have suspected, & probably knew deep down anyway, there wasn't just the one mouse. shroom saw one zooming past out of the corner of his eye the other night & sparnicle's been running into corners & sniffing madly. so maybe we will need to buy a mouse trap after all .. unless mcgarnicle can get the other one like he did the first one. i suspect that the first mouse wasn't as fast, or was maybe just a little more foolhardy, than the second one.
i can also hear something chewing away in the ceiling above me right now, as i type.
June 17, 2005
the demise of the mouse - 05:56 PM
our mouse has met his demise. i didn't expect it at all, but mcgarnicle actually managed to kill the mouse! i heard him snuffling & scratching about in the laundry, but assumed the mouse was hiding under the washing machine.
when i went there later in the evening, i saw a small dark spot in the corner. i turned the light on & there was poor little mousey, dead. his little eyes were still open & i could see his tiny little teeth.
it was a shame that smiley was already asleep because i would have shown him the mouse. pointed out his eyes & nose & ears etc. i threw little mousey out the front door onto the lawn for a bird or some animal to take away.
June 10, 2005
mouse in the house - 04:37 PM
there's a mouse in the house. i've seen evidence of it in the past couple of weeks, but not until today have i seen the actual mouse itself.
i was headed into the bedroom to change smiley's nappy & i saw it run away.
just now i put my feet down on the floor heavily & it must have been nearby because mcgarnicle went chasing what i assume was the mouse into a corner. there's a cupboard there, so i think it must have run under the cupboard door.
might be time to buy a mouse trap.
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