Apparently, mouse invaders have a schedule. At this same time last year,** we discovered mouse turds and murdered two mice. After we found the second mouse, I got an ultrasonic, electoromagnetic magic forcefield. I assumed it worked, since we didn’t have another mouse for an entire year! However, last night I was turning off theContinue reading “Mouse House”
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Monkey man
If you don’t follow SYTYCD (Canada or otherwise), surely you’d like to hear the latest on my dog. While we were in California for Thanksgiving, Isis tore the legs off of one of the first toys we ever got her. A stuffed monkey with stretchy legs we cleverly named “Monkey Man.” Rob got it forContinue reading “Monkey man”
The castle in my backyard
Construction has begun on Rob’s dream: a backyard building where he can practice martial arts. I have a vague fantasy that I’ll be able to park my car in the garage when all is said and done, but who knows, he may decide that the kettlebell collection needs to stay where it is. It’s aContinue reading “The castle in my backyard”
I don’t want to do my laundry
I literally have been losing sleep (people use that expression figuratively, don’t they?) over a couple of issues regarding my house. One involves the permitting for a large accessory building to accommodate the garageful of martial arts equipment currently preventing me from parking my car in the garage. In an unexpected development, I was theContinue reading “I don’t want to do my laundry”
What did you do for the Super Bowl?
While other people were eating wings and shouting at their widescreen TV sets (I assume), I spent last Sunday becoming an accessory to murder. Of a mouse. I don’t feel good about it, but then I work with people who go out with rifles and deliberately shoot deer and elk, so maybe my humane compassContinue reading “What did you do for the Super Bowl?”
How long has this been going on?
Isis and I are alone for the next 24 hours plus. Rob is doing some mixed martial arts something-or-other in San Jose. I’m not scared. Just this second my ferocious guard dog leaped into action, barking her shrill head off, setting off the ultrasonic anti-bark device I installed by the library window for this veryContinue reading “How long has this been going on?”
Unproductive
You’d think with all this time away from work that I’d be making great progress on my novel. Not so much. I haven’t been in the office since Wednesday. I had a field trip Thursday and was supposed to go on an excursion Friday, but decided to be sick instead. I’m still sick, too sickContinue reading “Unproductive”
The Accidental Remodel
I bought Isis a new toy on Thursday. Because our house isn’t completely littered with dog toys. It was one of those elongated Bobo Loofa dogs, but it was dressed like a skeleton. As she was enjoying it, I congratulated ourselves for having a dog who knows which objects littering the floors are her toysContinue reading “The Accidental Remodel”
Kari Neumeyer 