Plague #1: When we very first moved in, sugar ants were literally taking over the house! We went into major deep cleaning mode and found a nest of them underneath a drawer in the kitchen! Although we thought we had killed them all, we still had weeks and weeks of tracking them down and getting rid of several more nests in the kitchen! Everything with sugar in it had to be stuffed into the fridge, breakfast cereal and all during the whole duration of the great ant hunt!
Plague #2: Warm weather ended up driving thousands of sand flies into our house every night. Since we have no a/c, we would keep the windows open to cool off the house. The flies were so small they would get right through the screens on the windows! We found them everywhere...in our cups, bowls, bedding...you name it! We finally sprayed the screen down with bug killer to ward them off... it worked...sortof! :)
Plague #3: About 2 months ago I woke up to use the bathroom and almost stepped on this tiny little frog outside our bedroom door. I chased him, caught him, and put him outside...only to have him come back in twice more through a tiny little crack underneath the door!
Plague #4: Well, here's a picture of our 4th little plague. We woke up one morning to find little 'presents' all over the kitchen counter and floor...plus a huge hole in the curtains above the desk...... we got a really big surprise when Sam pulled back the curtains soon after we had cleaned up, and a small creature came flying at us, landed on the floor, ran over both our feet, and under the fireplace....
Sam getting a closer look at our new little friend....
It's a bird! It's a plane! No it's just a REALLY, extremely fast marsupial mouse (who is also very 'street' smart)...you gotta admit..he's way cuter than a regular old mouse! :) Check out that aerodynamic head...no wonder he's so fast you can barely see him speed by!
This is the result of 1 and a 1/2 hours of mouse chasing...the furniture in complete disarray and we still didn't catch him! This little guy is so fast and so smart, we kept thinking we knew where he was hiding, only to find he was half way across the room, hiding in a completely different spot! He found a spot in the wall behind the fridge where we have been unable to flush him out.... we will keep you updated! Wish us luck in the great Wallagoot mouse hunt! :)
2 comments:
Sounds like too much fun! Hopefully no more animals will visit you. Looks like you are having such a great time! Congrats on the marriage!
I have to admit I am still WAY jealous of all your Aussie adventures (and you TOTALLY need to get into scuba!), but the little visitors makes me a little less envious. :)
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