It started on the way back home from Nashville this weekend. About an hour from home, my AC went out in my car. At first, I thought it was just my imagination - just the afternoon sun warming the car. But then I felt the the hot air blowing out of the vents. I had to mentally encourage myself - counting each mile. The dog panted, and I took ice packs out of the cooler that I had (thankfully) on the seat beside me and put them on my lap. By the time the dog and I got home, I was sweating bullets and she was panting constantly. It was so much cooler outside in the summer heat than it had been in the car.
My husband got a crack in his windshield - this weekend - on his road trip that he took. A rock hit it on the interstate, but the crack didn't show up until Sunday night. By Monday, it had expanded across the driver's side.
Monday morning, my husband's garage door started acting weird. It will open, but then when it gets all the way down and you think that it's closed, it goes back up. Oh, and when it get to the bottom, it makes this really loud grinding noise right before it goes up. So the temporary solution is to stomp on it when it gets down to the bottom. So that will have to be fixed.
Tuesday morning, the dog went into my closet and went crazy underneath the shelves. I looked around to see what was making her sniff and get really excited. I opened the drawer and was horrified. There was mouse poo in there. Many little poos. Then I saw poo on this shelf, and that shelf. I freaked out.
And remembered something that had happened last Thursday. I was bringing a bag up from downstairs for my trip and something ran down the stairs past me. A fleeting thought was that it was a mouse, but I thought - nah, that's crazy. So I convinced myself that it was a roach (like that was any better). Oh and when it ran past me, I screamed so loud and so much - like a little baby!!
So I knew that we had a mouse in the house - or mice. So I called the bug guy. He's been with us for a while - knows us and is really nice. He met me at the house about an hour after I called. And he set glue traps out - everywhere. There was more poo than I thought there had been. He said that the mouse is super happy where he is. So now my closet smells like peanut butter mouse glue traps. Yea.
And after I went back to work, I touched the computer mouse - it somehow had green ink all over it and I got covered. Not a good mouse day.
Wednesday, I took my car to the local repair shop for them to fix the air conditioning. But after they tested it, they couldn't fix it. The main computer in the car that runs everything is faulty and has to be replaced by the dealership. (which our local dealership service centers have gone out of business because of bankruptcy). The dealer has to replace the computer because they are the only ones that can program it. Nice. So we have to drive a ways to get to someone that can maybe fix it.
So as I drove home after picking up the unfixed car, my back window fell down. I tried to roll it up, but got the oh-so-familiar grinding noise. My car has had ridiculous problems with the windows falling down and not staying up. I took it back and the repair guy said that it was the regulator that had broken. So I have to get that fixed now too. I have it rigged up so that it stays for now with a cardboard "wedge" and duct tape.
Oh, also on Wednesday, we did a mouse trap check. We had one on one of the traps in my closet. Yuck! Ewwww! Gross! So with tongs and a garbage bag, we retrieved and disposed of the trap. It was not pretty, nor fun in any way. Guess that it's a good thing though.
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I found mouse poo in my garage last night - the one the CAT lives in now - if it makes you feel any better.
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