It IS a small world really, isn't it.
Pony and Sue C? Our lake is further north and all the way on the other side of the state. We are something like an hour south of that smallest tip of Lake Superior.
Kathy, I thought and thought about you as we passed through Atlanta.
And Sunny, of course I thought about you as we passed through your area! :smile:
It's just a wonderful thing to know you all are out there.
When we were in Texas last year, I thought about Fran.
So...anyone want to hear about the adventures of coming home to a log house in the woods after a six and a half month absence?
Heh.
I thought so! :smile:
Well...the night before we left for our trip South, the washing machine plugged, and water spilled into the (carpeted) bathroom (again). That would be the same bathroom the cats urinated in that year that pigless had so much fun laughing at the odors in my bathroom when it was my month to host the ladies from my Book Club and I wanted to know how to get the cat smell out of the carpet.
Remember when she began calling me "Scent of Cat Urine"?!?
And now, I hardly "see" pigless at all anymore!
Well, anyway. So, the bathroom flooded (again) just before we left last Fall.
So, we knew we had that to deal with when we got home. What we did not know was that the house itself had flooded when there was a thunderstorm here and, as the ground was frozen, the water had nowhere to go but up.
So, the white carpeting in the living room was stained a deep, reddish brown about three feet out from the tile entryway and kitchen area.
Know how I got it out of there?
Half water / half hydrogen peroxide in a carpet shampooer.
So far, so good, then.
Etched into the tile in the dining room is the perfect impression of an animal about a foot long by maybe seven inches wide. Here is the interesting (and eerily spooky!) part.
There is no hair, there are no bones. It is obvious the creature disintegrated (at least for awhile) on the dining room floor.
But where did the body go?
The man who was watching the house for us says he removed no corpse larger than a mouse (of which, he assures us, he removed a great many!).
There was alot of soot in the fireplace and the screen was open. So, even though husband had closed the vent and insulated that opening with fiberglass, we assume that is how whatever it was got in.
And here is the sad part.
The wood around the patio door in the dining room is gnawed in two places where the poor thing tried to get out.
But...where did the body GO?
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The bats are back. I will have to get out my bat extrusion devices, again. (If anyone wants to know how to get rid of bats, I am the champion bat removal/extrusion person!)
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The mice had themselves a wonderful time while we were gone. Their little nests are in the strangest places, and there are caches of sunflower seeds everywhere. The robe I put on this morning? Had some in the sleeve.
Spooky!
There must have been one in the television. husband loves television, and has this big screen one? So, there he was the first night we got home, with the carpet stained and the washing machine plugged and the water backing up into the (carpeted) bathroom and...all at once ZAP.
And the television blanks off NEVER TO COME ON AGAIN.
We think a little creature must have elecrocuted himself in there.
It happened to us before, too ~ not with a television, but with an electric heater. When we took the cabinet apart to replace the heater? There was an electrocuted body of a mouse in the wiring.
So.
Living in the woods is not for sissies.
As we begin to venture out to the dock, I will have to see whether those spiders I sent to Georgia last year stayed there or whether they decided TM's house in New York was more to their liking. (HA!)
But I definitely will check, Kathy. I am sure I heard spidery whisperings about Georgia, down there by the dock last summer ~ especially the Atlanta area.
Which I strongly encouraged, having been through that area myself once or twice.
:smile:
And finally, this is woodtick season in northern Wisconsin. (I know ~ sometimes I wonder why I ever came home at all!!!)
But out the window right now? I am watching an eagle swoop down over the lake, and everything is beautiful and smells so sweet.
Well, except for the bathroom carpet.
Heh.
Barbara
