Teleidoscope

Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Meeses

Posted at 4:52 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

There was a cartoon cat, Mr Jinks, whose catch phrase was "I hate meeses to pieces".

I've been having a war against mice in my kitchen for the past few months. I've caught a few with various traps and Dinah has been catching some.

A couple of nights ago she caught a little one that I think was one of the kitchen mice: it was too small and light to trip the triggers of the traps. If so, it got careless and came out from behind the appliances.

Tomorrow any mice that are still in there are going to get a shock. The new stove and dishwasher are supposed to be delivered and installed between 11 AM and one PM.

I plane to vacuum up some of the disgustingness while things are opened up.

In the meantime, I need to clean and vaccuum under the sink (which I have been trying to ignore) before the installers come, and run everything from the storage drawer of the current stove through a pots and pans cycle of the dishwasher. Yuck.

Tomorrow, for supper, I will be cooking with gas for the first time in my life. And the stove will give me some cool cooking options. It's got a high-power burner with a sturdy rack for round- bottomed woks and a breadproofing mode. And the lower compartment is a warming drawer, not just a storage drawer, so it may even seal out the mice.

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