Saturday, June 12, 2010
KILLING TIME
especially for a 5 & 7 year old. Thank goodness for electronics. Mimi
and Shirley "Ling Ling" were able to keep themselves occupied last
night.
Friday, June 11, 2010
RATATOUILLE
Yep, yep, yep, Ratatouille and family are here for a visit. They will be getting their eviction notice come next Tuesday.
I found out that Shelly (Zoe's mom) had them in their house. There is a golf course on the west side and not one but two greenbelts running parallel to each other thus enclosing our neighborhood. There are some big plans in the works to get rid of the golf course and put in houses, then on the opposite side of us they are planning to put in a huge park on the other side of the greenbelt. As for us, our greenbelt will stay the same as the school is right behind us. Then four houses down is the run off drainage pond.
With all of this around us, one is bound to have mice/rat problems. A couple of months ago I heard some scratching noise inside our air vent leading to the upstairs. I told dad about it and he went down into the crawl space and said he saw nothing. But I know what I heard. Never underestimate a woman's intuition. I knew something was not right but again dad said "I did not see anything down there". So when Shelly told me about her problem and gave me the phone number. I called. Mainly because #1-I heard the scratching noise, which has since stopped. #2-We live right next to the greenbelt where wild critters like to hang out and #3-we also live 4 houses down from a disgusting drainage pond where rats like to hang out.
Shannon came out yesterday afternoon after school. I sent Mimi down to Blake's as she does not need to know about this. She thought that it was rather cool to skip out on her piano lessons. Shannon was down in our crawl space no longer than 15 seconds when he said "I hope you have a strong stomach" and produced a humongous and I mean HUMONGOUS DEAD RAT! I screamed bloody murder. That rat was almost as big as our cat Stanley I kid you not. Also I went on a rampage around our neighborhood and warned all of our immediate neighbors. It took until today to get my fingernails and toenails out of our ceiling. I called Brandy who lives across the street as fast as I could get a grip and told her my story. Shannon was out at her house today.
Sure enough, Ratatouille came to visit her house too. However since she had a cat, no rat was found but there were droppings which is evidence that they had been there.
It still gives me the willies just knowing that they are still down there. All I can say is......thank goodness for melatonin and good wine. Slept good last night and I will sleep good tonight.
I found out that Shelly (Zoe's mom) had them in their house. There is a golf course on the west side and not one but two greenbelts running parallel to each other thus enclosing our neighborhood. There are some big plans in the works to get rid of the golf course and put in houses, then on the opposite side of us they are planning to put in a huge park on the other side of the greenbelt. As for us, our greenbelt will stay the same as the school is right behind us. Then four houses down is the run off drainage pond.
With all of this around us, one is bound to have mice/rat problems. A couple of months ago I heard some scratching noise inside our air vent leading to the upstairs. I told dad about it and he went down into the crawl space and said he saw nothing. But I know what I heard. Never underestimate a woman's intuition. I knew something was not right but again dad said "I did not see anything down there". So when Shelly told me about her problem and gave me the phone number. I called. Mainly because #1-I heard the scratching noise, which has since stopped. #2-We live right next to the greenbelt where wild critters like to hang out and #3-we also live 4 houses down from a disgusting drainage pond where rats like to hang out.
Shannon came out yesterday afternoon after school. I sent Mimi down to Blake's as she does not need to know about this. She thought that it was rather cool to skip out on her piano lessons. Shannon was down in our crawl space no longer than 15 seconds when he said "I hope you have a strong stomach" and produced a humongous and I mean HUMONGOUS DEAD RAT! I screamed bloody murder. That rat was almost as big as our cat Stanley I kid you not. Also I went on a rampage around our neighborhood and warned all of our immediate neighbors. It took until today to get my fingernails and toenails out of our ceiling. I called Brandy who lives across the street as fast as I could get a grip and told her my story. Shannon was out at her house today.
Sure enough, Ratatouille came to visit her house too. However since she had a cat, no rat was found but there were droppings which is evidence that they had been there.
It still gives me the willies just knowing that they are still down there. All I can say is......thank goodness for melatonin and good wine. Slept good last night and I will sleep good tonight.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING
Like I said before, our weather can change on a dime. Today we had a little bit of everything. Started off with sunshine, then by 12 it was dark gray clouds, then thunder and lightening which was followed by hale. This video was taken at 6:45 this evening. We had sunshine and rain together. The weatherman says that we are to have really good weather come this weekend and I do hope what he says is true because that is when Summit Gymnastics will participate in the Maple Valley Day Parade down by Lake Wilderness.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
GARDENING
rainning off and on for quite some time now. Oh but let me tell you,
in between the rain it has amazingly gorgeous! We have the most bluest
skies and cool weather. The one thing I don't miss about California is
the HEAT. I just cannot tolerate it. This morning was one of those
mornings where it was
Super gorgeous. The one thing I have learned since being here is that
the weather can turn on s dime so I thought that I would get some
gardening doe this morning. before the clouds come rolling in as they
are doing at this very moment while I am doing laundry and relaxing in
the backyard listening to the kids play at recess.
VOLUNTEER LUNCHEON
with whatever needs to be done. So this afternoon as a gesture of
appreciation, the school gave us a luncheon with a performance by our
school's choir. It was very, very lovely. We also received the flower
pot along with card and bookmark.
ADOPTION UPDATE
I had a really nice talk with Norman Niu. Surprisingly he still remembers us. Long story short is that group 121 just recently came home. That was something I already knew since Audrey's family was just there getting her little sister. What was also surprising was that they stayed in an apartment as opposed to a hotel. Imaging that! Any hoo, Norman said that group 122 is getting their referals now and that most likely they will be going in 2 months and that we may be going in 4 months from now. If that is the case, it will put us in the area of Sept/Oct. That would be awsome as that time of the year is really special for us. Not only is it our annivesary for our wedding but family as well.
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