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Comment on Oh, it’s on by Sara

Sara — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:54:12 +0000

oh Angi – I’m so depressed to hear that we can’t just get rid of mice and be done with them… I’m also hoping I can stick fast to my “ew mice are gross” face and let Zach clean up the bloody messes (wish me luck)

Comment on Oh, it’s on by Sara

Sara — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:42:54 +0000

We will hopefully retrieve our cat, Oscar, this weekend. He used to be excellent about catching mice, and then we didn’t have any for years and years and he got lazy. The last mouse we had, he barely lifted his head when he saw it… I’m hoping he’s gotten his energy back! Also, we needed to find a way to block off the green house with the cedar floor, since we don’t want Oscar to think that is his personal (ginormous) litter box

Comment on Oh, it’s on by Stormy

Stormy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:37:56 +0000

I agree about the cat. Cats are one of the most effective ways of getting rid of mice. I’m a dog person, so cats are only slightly more appealing than mice, but cats don’t die in your walls and stink up your house for days (hopefully you’ll get rid of the mice before that happens!)

Good luck!

Comment on Oh, it’s on by Angela Grasso

Angela Grasso — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:33:44 +0000

GET YOUR CAT BACK!!!!! And spray foam in every nook and cranny is only a temporary fix…we have tried it!! We use the sticky traps that they go into and can’t get out (but they can dry up quick) I guess the old fashion ones with peanut butter on them work best (just don”t put them where the kids will accidentally get them) ….and prepare for Zach to yell alot when setting them!!!! (oh and really icky bloody messes…sorry to be so blunt but whoever sees it first in our house has to clean it…) GOOD LUCK…doesn’t matter the age of the house…they get in anywhere!!!

Comment on Helpful Tips by Abby Batchelder

Abby Batchelder — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:39:26 +0000

Rest easy knowing you won’t have to go through that again for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time! Congratulations!

Comment on Helpful Tips by Zach

Zach — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:31:37 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lqfQi7146U

Comment on Helpful Tips by Adam Backstrom

Adam Backstrom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:38:45 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9K4BKkLaCI

Comment on A little self examination… by al

al — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:39:59 +0000

see, I think you’re missing the point of my last post. If in your planning, you had said to us that you were interested in attending, and would be bringing the kids, we would have picked an appropriate location ahead of time and all this would have been avoided. But since we didn’t know, we didn’t realize we were throwing a kink in your plans. It certainly wasn’t intentional, and I hope you don’t think it was.

Comment on A little self examination… by Sara

Sara — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:37:57 +0000

Thank you Al for perfectly highlighting the rift between families with small kids and those without small kids. I’m trying, you’re sort of trying, but in the end it still doesn’t work. To you, the plans were nebulous and up in the air until the last minute, because they could be. To me, it was something that I had been planning on and looking forward to for four days. Something I had carefully prepared and planned, and my only opportunity to spend time with friends outside of my home in two months with no hope of another night out in the foreseeable future. From my perspective, the last minute change in my evening had me fighting back tears at my desk at the end of the day. But, trying to maintain relationships this way is a lot of work. Perhaps I should just concede and say, see you in 18 years…

Comment on A little self examination… by al

al — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:36:13 +0000

Ok, I’m going to register my two cents here … none of us knew you were planning on joining us at all, nevermind with kids. That sketchy bar regardless of how sketchy was our hangout for at least 2 nights a week before our friend moved to California, and thus was a natural choice for us to want to visit again while he was home. We have friends there, and get treated pretty well when it comes to the bill at the end of the night, whereas at fosters we pay an arm and a leg. Up until we went to walk out of the office, we hadn’t announced where we’d be going, so I’m not sure why you assumed it would be Fosters.

If everything had gone down as you had said and we had known the kids were coming, and had said we were going to the kid friendly place, then yes, we would have been total a*holes to change our mind at the last minute. But since that was not the case, I don’t think you have a leg to stand on, and the “snarky” email was a bit rude given the situation.