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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2018 14:43:45 GMT
I don't know if they wait for me to be up and around, but I have heard the mousetraps snap three times in the last two days, usually around 6 a.m. This makes me go upstairs to take care of the problem at a time of day when the thought of such things repels me, but I am even more repelled by the idea of leaving them up there for even a minute. Things were very calm for several months, but I think the current outbreak is due to the new student tenants next door. The other ones moved out, and I think that the replacements are creating enough commotion with their furniture and stuff to make the mice look for a new home.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 28, 2018 18:02:48 GMT
I am even more repelled by the idea of leaving them up there for even a minute. That is smart. Any vermin hosted by the mouse will immediately look for the next warm-blooded host, which would be you. Can't you get together with the neighbors and have the whole building treated at one time?
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Post by whatagain on Aug 28, 2018 19:39:45 GMT
With 7 cats at home mice don't have a long life expectancy once they go through our door. However cats can be noisy. Once some cat ate a bird right under my in laws' bed. They realised only the day after.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2018 22:12:28 GMT
Every single afternoon at this time there is frantic drumming coming from somewhere. Can't tell where, but close enough so that it's really irritating. They'd better hope I never find out where they are.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2018 1:56:05 GMT
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Post by mossie on Sept 16, 2018 8:34:45 GMT
Perhaps they could be ‘persuaded’ to join their ancestors
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Post by lagatta on Sept 16, 2018 9:46:34 GMT
Thanks for the explanation, bixa. I knew that the Mexican independence day was in September, forgot the date though, and had no idea why 5 Mayo was such a big thing in the US. Indeed, the only references to it up here were ads for beer or tequila. While there are certainly Mexican immigrants here, there aren't really Mexican "commmunities" as in the US. The Mexicans I know here are highly-educated professionals. There are far fewer Mexican temporary farmworkers than before (there were a lot in a tomato-growing region in southwestern Ontario; almost all were married men with families who were glad to get the work but used the money improving their lives back home, improving their house, helping their children's education etc. There is more immigration from the poorer and troubled countries south of Mexico. I was at a Chilean peña on Saturday commemorating the 11th of September - the Chilean coup, not the WTC terror attack. On the 11th, every year people meet at a tree at the park just beneath Mont-Royal (Parc Jeanne-Mance). es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1a_folcl%C3%B3rica_chilenaBut the wine we drank was plain red wine, not mixed with fruit like a sort of sangria, and obviously there were empanadas...
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Post by mossie on Sept 18, 2018 15:56:21 GMT
I can hear some wind outside. The weather guru told us we were getting Hurricane Helene, I just don't understand what all the fuss is about hurricanes. Mind you we were glad of them in 1940.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2018 17:00:08 GMT
I thought you all were getting a storm named Ali. Mossie, you reeeeeeally don't understand the fuss about hurricanes?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2018 18:17:03 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2018 18:30:31 GMT
Shoulda known!
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Post by rikita on Sept 19, 2018 6:53:09 GMT
lots of clanging from the kitchen. someone is mistaking our pots and cutlery for toys.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2018 15:32:34 GMT
You really need to have a stern talk with Mr. R.
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Post by mossie on Sept 20, 2018 8:22:21 GMT
Reminds me of years gone by, when my wife discovered a row of semi molten dolls house kitchen pots in her oven. And another episode with a previous brat who would turn the kitchen into a minefield by taking all the pots and pans out of the bottom drawers and playing cars or something with them.
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Post by rikita on Sept 20, 2018 9:06:31 GMT
well, last night what i heard was first some loud noises i couldn't quite place, then the voices of some men saying that something is burning and someone threw something into somewhere, and then them calling the police and/or firefighters. these arrived almost without a sound (i suppose at night they don't need the siren much), i just saw their arrival by the lights through the curtain ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2018 16:31:42 GMT
There is a Hare Krishna group that has set up a position just downstairs from my apartment. Non-stop chanting and bell ringing. It looks like they are going to be there for some time because some of them are sitting on a saffron blanket on the pavement with a display of essential reading materials. They are a bit too far from my windows for a bucket of water to help motivate them.
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Post by bjd on Sept 21, 2018 19:15:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 19:56:39 GMT
The color of saffron has been known to accelerate plant growth. Your windowsill herb garden may well reap the benefits along with the added chanting. I have 2 hummingbird feeders hanging on my balcony along with a plethora of nectaring vines and other nectar sources. Yet, there's a line-up at the feeders reminiscent of the tarmac at LaGuardia and their chirping and squabbling makes for long periods of zen like amusement. Such territorial little critters.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2018 21:15:29 GMT
In the end, the Hare Krishna people disappeared much more quickly than I expected. City folk have become so intolerant of anything that disturbs their day that I'm sure that measures were taken to remove this disruption of normalcy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 22, 2018 0:41:13 GMT
You sure it wasn't your basil plants crashing to the pavement that sent the HKs scurrying?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 22, 2018 13:25:37 GMT
The Hare Krishna group is back, but this time it's much better because it is pouring rain.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 11:53:24 GMT
Rain here too but no Hare Krishnas. (one never sees them here anymore. I believe they still have a temple on Esplanade Ave.)
Just loud chirping at the hummingbird feeder and a fog horn in the distance.
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Post by rikita on Sept 27, 2018 13:49:44 GMT
normal sounds of cars and people outside. earlier, there was a baby crying.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2018 13:20:35 GMT
I hear the clanging of pipes and other metal objects as the scaffolding begins to go up on my building.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 9, 2018 16:26:43 GMT
Thunder! And rain pounding down.
Usually I LOVE Wisconsin t-storms, but we are in the middle of a long walk, and taking shelter in a gazebo while we wait it out. (And worrying about the windows we left open...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 11, 2018 22:52:45 GMT
No thunder here, but the rain is really coming down. I have the front door & the kitchen window open so I can hear & smell it. Just stood out on the porch awhile, mesmerized by how the rain hits the tall spineless agave by porch, neatly trickling down in stages like the finest fountain.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 11, 2018 23:01:59 GMT
Nice word picture, bixa!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 11, 2018 23:25:44 GMT
Thank you, ma'am!
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Post by fumobici on Oct 12, 2018 1:21:44 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 12, 2018 1:53:01 GMT
Y'all are kind, especially since I made a boneheaded lack-of-proofreading misnake.
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