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Post by dayeanu on Dec 17, 2014 19:28:49 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! This one wins a prize! !
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 17, 2014 19:32:12 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! When I was growing up we lived on an old farmhouse, and this happened often. The smell will go in about 4 days.
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Post by hiding on Dec 18, 2014 2:53:58 GMT -5
A decaying, melting, overgrown zucchini I was going to make several loaves of zucchini bread with. Then I got bombarded with a huge amount of work. Now I'm ill too but putting in many hours at home working. Oh, I did dispose of the melting green monster.
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 18, 2014 4:09:11 GMT -5
A decaying, melting, overgrown zucchini I was going to make several loaves of zucchini bread with. Then I got bombarded with a huge amount of work. Now I'm ill too but putting in many hours at home working. Oh, I did dispose of the melting green monster. Good for you, hiding!
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Post by cando on Dec 20, 2014 6:49:41 GMT -5
Went to the Buffet in my Dining Room to put new table cloth in drawer. Naturally... the effect of can't put it in until I make room for it. I found bag of Lactated Ringers and supplies for IV. Aarrgghh! These have been sitting in that drawer since 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last had to use lactated ringers on my little Siamese Sealpoint Cat, Bandit, who ended up dying in 2006. This bag expired in 2012. Tossed the Lactated Ringers & supplies! (poured the bag out, first). Finally, was able to put the new table cloth in the drawer of the Buffet in my dining room.
CD
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Post by shosha on Dec 22, 2014 6:34:03 GMT -5
When I was about eight or nine, my friends came over and we decided to use the 'cubby hole' in my room as a clubhouse. The cubby hole was a sort of cupboard/closet/thing half way up my bedroom wall, basically the door to the attic in most of the houses on my street was half way up the wall of the corresponding room, set into a sort of horizontal alcove, so there was about two or three feet of "floor" running the width of the room at about chest height. In my house, though, instead of being open, the previous owners (presumably - or perhaps this was how they all originally were and the other houses we saw had removed this wall) had continued the wall up to ceiling level, with an additional door so you could access the attic. The doors were both at one end of the room, so the cubby hole itself was basically a 3' x maybe 4.5' x however wide the room was cupboardy thing. I was always very, very messy, even (okay, especially) as a kid, in spite of my clean freak dad, and the cubby hole ended up being a junk bunker.
So, we decided (I guess my bedroom itself was in reasonably decent shape that day or I don't know if I'd even have had them round) to clear out the cubby hole and make it into a club house. We were enthusiastically investigating three or four years of collected Stuff when my friend suddenly said "oh, wow, a toy bat! WAIT!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!" It was, yes, an actual dead mouse.
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Post by Ally on Dec 28, 2014 8:57:22 GMT -5
My DD started with a stomach bug yesterday. She hasn't been able to hold anything down. Initially she didn't have a fever, but now she does. We have lots of ibuprofen around, but she wants acetaminophen. I have been going through cabinets looking for some. I found some children's chewables from when she was little. It expired 18 years ago. Then I went to DH's room and found 2 bottles. One expired in '97, the other in '94. They all went into the trash.
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Post by cyn on Dec 28, 2014 11:10:47 GMT -5
We have a snap-trap set up for the mice, and DH takes their bodies and throws them into the woods behind our back fence. I though. This morning I saw a box on the porch, and inside it are 4 dead mice. WTH? Is he trying to scare them away with this, some ominous threat?! Oh boy.
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Post by thedreadedknock on Dec 28, 2014 11:18:04 GMT -5
It's like the "heads on spikes" thing.
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 28, 2014 12:02:44 GMT -5
My DD started with a stomach bug yesterday. She hasn't been able to hold anything down. Initially she didn't have a fever, but now she does. We have lots of ibuprofen around, but she wants acetaminophen. I have been going through cabinets looking for some. I found some children's chewables from when she was little. It expired 18 years ago. Then I went to DH's room and found 2 bottles. One expired in '97, the other in '94. They all went into the trash. Ally I hope your DO feels better fast! It never occurs to me to look at expiration dates on OTC pills like ibuorofen.
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Post by Ally on Dec 28, 2014 13:51:02 GMT -5
My DD started with a stomach bug yesterday. She hasn't been able to hold anything down. Initially she didn't have a fever, but now she does. We have lots of ibuprofen around, but she wants acetaminophen. I have been going through cabinets looking for some. I found some children's chewables from when she was little. It expired 18 years ago. Then I went to DH's room and found 2 bottles. One expired in '97, the other in '94. They all went into the trash. Ally I hope your DO feels better fast! It never occurs to me to look at expiration dates on OTC pills like ibuorofen. Thanks Daye, DD is feeling a little better and has started to be able to hold down apple juice, jello, and soda crackers. I don't pay much attention if they are expired by a couple of years, but when they are 20 years old?
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Post by sue5000 on Dec 30, 2014 10:23:47 GMT -5
Many years ago, I was trapping mice in the basement of my old old house. For some reason, I just kept dropping the dead mice into an old coffee can with a tight lid. I think there were 8 or 9 mice caught in a week or two. After no more mice were trapped, I just forgot about about the can...... A few months later, I was cleaning and decluttering the back hallway and basement stairs. I picked up an old coffee can and opened it OMG! I almost fell over from the stench!!!!
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Post by cyn on Dec 30, 2014 14:44:31 GMT -5
Sue, big hugs and thank you for that - I read your post before I found DH's old deep fryer that hadn't been used in years. He said he'd never emptied it, so I intentionally double bagged it and placed it gently, upright, into the garbage. Without peeking - I don't want to know what's in there! There was a ton of rat poop in that cupboard. Tons of mouse poop too, but they're just little grains. Rat poop is log-like in comparison. I'm so happy that's over with!
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Post by lostchild on Dec 30, 2014 15:18:05 GMT -5
When I had house complete clean I found a mouse had crawled in the broiler from last tenant. Can you say mummy? Dried mouse! Needless to say got new broiler pan from landlord!
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Post by hiding on Dec 30, 2014 16:05:49 GMT -5
When I had house complete clean I found a mouse had crawled in the broiler from last tenant. Can you say mummy? Dried mouse! Needless to say got new broiler pan from landlord! Oh my! Not the fun kind of surprise.
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