would you like a mouse with that, sir?
“The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal”
yesterday (saturday) was the first time i went swimming since 2007, or maybe even 2006! the sun even came out for the occasion and it was great relaxing at diane’s pool. i dropped ivan and my laundry off at my parents house and headed for diane’s home in the country. she lives on 6 acres in the woods and i was surrounded by deer. two frogs and a rabbit joined us as well. very nice. before leaving the city I set my new ‘humane’ mouse traps. as instructed, i put cheese in one and peanut butter in the other. the mouse enters the little plastic box through a swinging door but cannot get back out. i didn’t think to check the traps upon my return home last night. i arrived home around 9:00, unpacked my clean laundry, read my mail, brushed ivan, checked him for ticks, took him for a walk before the impending thunderstorm and by 10:00, i was ready for 1 episode of law & order before going to sleep. as i was channel surfing for an un-seen episode, mouse-boy came right into the living room and made himself comfortable on ivan’s bed. damn! even though i’m pretty sure i only have this one resident mouse (who i’ve named ‘mouse-boy’), i got up off the couch to check the traps. no mice. no cheese. no peanut butter. just twenty thousand ants. that was truly disgusting. although i would like to be hiking my way through bhutan, i will basically just relax this week. bhutan will have to wait until i have the money and a travelling partner. or, a travelling partner who wants to pay for me to go to bhutan. whatever. instead i will go to meditation / dharma service today and spend the rest of the day catching up on some reading i’ve been wanting to do. tonight i was planning on enjoying a good bottle of wine with a friend in my backyard. here is the forecast for tonight:
thunder storms
T-storms
thunder storms
thunder storms
thunder storms
thunder storms
rain
