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Post by cyn on Dec 13, 2014 15:36:44 GMT -5
Thedreadedknock, that's funny! I have some Christmas knick-knacks I was thinking about putting up, but I couldn't remember where I'd put them - oh, right: I'd put them in a bin when I was cleaning up to have the furnace guy in. They were *still up* from last year!
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Post by larataylor on Dec 13, 2014 16:13:38 GMT -5
thedreadedknock - I found pine needles all over my old house for a few years after the last Christmas we had in there. Inside boxes and bins, under and behind furniture ...
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Post by sue5000 on Dec 13, 2014 16:35:23 GMT -5
I just heated up a cup of coffee in the microwave. When it beeped, I opened the door, and there was spider on his way out! How can he still be alive??
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Post by chadow on Dec 13, 2014 16:41:05 GMT -5
I did a load of laundry yesterday to get ready to go to lunch with a dear friend. When I got back I must have tidied up the hall by closing the dryer and the laundry doors. About 30 min after my return I could hear the cat playing and meowing in the other room... I went to go see what the fuse was and she wasn't in the room. Yep! She as in the dryer. No worse for the experience, and just as cuddly as ever.
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Post by sue5000 on Dec 13, 2014 16:53:14 GMT -5
Well chadow, at least you didn't nuke her!!
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Post by poppy on Dec 13, 2014 17:02:47 GMT -5
Oh boy...mine was in public. Ages ago I went with a good friend to spend an afternoon sunning on the beach. I had a small bag for keys, towel, lotion, etc. We settled on beach towels and I unzipped the bag to get lotion and out came a cockroach- the giant palmetto type. I was mortified. I scrambled to fling it away with the bottom of my shoe. My friend opened one eye, looked at it, and panned something to the effect of why couldn't I leave my pets at home. He's such a good friend!
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Post by chadow on Dec 13, 2014 17:06:06 GMT -5
No worries about that. I always empty the dryer and fill it before turning it on. I don't always empty it completely when it is done and I'm in a hurry. So she had a nice clean and warm pile in a quiet cave for awhile before I closed the door and maybe a 15 to 30 min of being caged in there and eventually crying to get out. She has always been extra curious and adventurous. If she gets outside, when she wants in she jumps at the door knob and causes the dog to bark they have a system.
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Post by larataylor on Dec 13, 2014 18:06:09 GMT -5
chadow - I did worse … I turned the dryer ON with the cat in there … something I've always been afraid of doing. The dryer had been sitting with the door open, and I think the cat was sound asleep in there, buried in the clothes. I reached in and felt the clothes in front, thought they needed a little bit more, closed the door, and turned on the dryer. It sounded a bit thumpy for a second or two, and then the door opened, and she kind of fell out, very disgruntled, and ran off! I think at least THAT cat won't nap in there again. And I don't usually leave the door open like that.
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Post by chadow on Dec 13, 2014 18:40:08 GMT -5
Ouch, poor kitty.
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Post by cyn on Dec 17, 2014 0:29:00 GMT -5
This isn't an embarrassing find, but my reaction was really funny! I was going through a cupboard tonight, the one where we only store canned goods because the mice get into that one. I was in a tossing mood, and thought I might find some expired stuff (of course, 4 cans of soup) but there was also an empty container of cocoa, that I refill from the bulk barn. I haven't used it since last winter, and now I noticed that the lid had a nice sized hole chewed into it. I shook the can, and it rattled! Horrors, I was sure there was a dead mouse in there! I was going to toss it, but since I was so scared to look inside, I actually dared myself to do it. It took me about a minute to lift the lid, and I was *not* into peeking in...but I did...ahhhhh, the plastic scooper! Huge sigh of relief, as I added that to the garbage bag. Oh the fun I can have! !
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Post by lesaulerouge on Dec 17, 2014 2:51:57 GMT -5
Somethjng has died in or around the computer desk in the spare bedroom. We cannot find it, but the smell is just soooooo bad. Mice walk in to that room from the barn, so there is poison down all the time. It has been being eaten for weeks, but this is the first thing not to have the good grace to go back out into the barn to die!
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Post by larataylor on Dec 17, 2014 8:18:36 GMT -5
lesaulerouge - that is horrible. You don't even have to be squalorous to have that happen, either. I know a family who kept their house neat as a pin, and a big rat died inside a wall and stank up the house something awful. My DH went over to help … I think they cut open the wall to get it out. DH is great for this kind of thing, as he has a very poor sense of smell. You just have to show him where the stinky thing is, and then you can run away and let him deal with it!
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Post by cyn on Dec 17, 2014 10:28:40 GMT -5
Ewww. Sorry, lesau* that not nice. At least dead things don't smell for long, they'll dry up and stop smelling after a bit. I learned this from giving my dogs fresh cow bones - horribly smelly at first! I've found lots of dead mice, and only the fresh kills really stank.
* I had to google (google fiend, here) what "lesaulerouge" meant, and I found out: red willow. Cool! I love willows! And red must be gorgeous, I planted an orange one at my last place. I'd love a red one here - we have lots of dogwood with red branches - so pretty in the winter, against the white background.
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Post by dtesposito on Dec 17, 2014 10:32:42 GMT -5
show him where the stinky thing is, and then you can run away
Love this--another entertaining mental picture!
Diane
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Post by lesaulerouge on Dec 17, 2014 11:32:33 GMT -5
Ewww. Sorry, lesau* that not nice. At least dead things don't smell for long, they'll dry up and stop smelling after a bit. I learned this from giving my dogs fresh cow bones - horribly smelly at first! I've found lots of dead mice, and only the fresh kills really stank. * I had to google (google fiend, here) what "lesaulerouge" meant, and I found out: red willow. Cool! I love willows! And red must be gorgeous, I planted an orange one at my last place. I'd love a red one here - we have lots of dogwood with red branches - so pretty in the winter, against the white background. Yep, the red willow, I don't know whether such things exist, but the words red willow and tree each have significance for me! And yes, the smell usually goes within a week, but it sucks while it lasts.
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