In one week we buried grandpa Bob (visited with family), mom and dad left for Israel, Aidan and Ella had field day, everyone's last day of school, Breanna had a graduation party, then graduation, I broke out in hives rash so I had to take a day to run to the doctor. we adopted 3 kittens, then it was our Shavuot celebration starting on Friday going through the weekend, not to mention our ongoing battles with the barn swallows and mice.
My cousin Erika and her family stayed with us when they came out for grandpa's buriul and our kids loved playing with Fiona. Fiona and Clara are both Valentine's babies, but a year apart, although they are about the same size. ☺
Breanna graduated and my kids are already telling me they miss her!
So, another mouse story.... I don't know if you remember our mice story from last year, thankfully we haven't had any IN the house, but my dryer started making a weird noise when I'd turn it on and then it sounded like dirt was falling and then made a growling noise. Cary tried to convince me that it was normal, but I wasn't convinced, so I was researching online and found a lot of people near beaches that had issues with sand in their dryers making noise so I started taking apart some of the dryer to see if I could clean out the dirt, well, the vacuum starting sucking out large sections of dried grass and that's when I knew I had a different problem on my hand, so I yelled for Cary to take over. ☺ He had to take the entire dryer apart and we found a mouse nest under the drum, and two dead mice in the duct, and some poor mouse/ mice got in the fan and there was blood and guts all over. Ugh. We got it all cleaned out and put back together and everything worked as normal, but we're idiots and didn't cover our vent to the outside, so a few days later we found more grass and mouse poop in the lint catcher so we had to do it all over again, but this time they hadn't built much of a nest and no dead mice were found. We've since blocked off their access. (We hope!)
