The last week and a half has been quite busy. I got to go out in the field and finally get some data for my Thesis, worked all week, it rained 5.5 inches in 36 hours, a mouse scared the crap out of Atalie, and we went up to Michigan for Easter weekend.
The rain put a damper on just about everything around here and flooded more than 50 roads and countless houses. Some of the photos are amazing. Water was up 10 feet in some places within Springfield City limits (not on the big rivers). The big river south of the city was super flooded and overtopped the dam, flooding a bunch of (expensive) houses downstream.
As for the mouse- it really was uneventful. It darted across the hallway in front of her and she jumped about a mile. The mouse then retreated to behind the fridge and Atalie sent me after to find it. It was hiding in the baseboard in a crack and was absolutely terrified as I stood over it with a very bright flashlight. We were planning on the "flush and trap" move, which involves a broom a box and two people. Atalie botched the whole thing when she spooked the mouse by bumping a plastic bag near it. We couldn't find it anywhere in the house after that and of course Atalie was not happy. :-) Maintenance was called the next day and when we returned home Sunday night there was a trap set up (no mouse present, however). A maintenance person showed up Monday morning and said he'd come back in the afternoon and fill the holes in the floor through which the mouse likely entered.
We buzzed up to Michigan Wednesday after Atalie got out of work and pulled in at a sleepy 1:45am. We got up the next morning for an appointment at the Eberhard Center, lunch with Cassandra, and then an appointment at Frederik Meijer Gardens in the afternoon. Both places are nice and would make for a nice reception. We capped the night with Brad and Mike and then headed to bed, which we were looking forward to. Friday was an early morning; I met up with a professor at GVSU and Atalie headed over to the Cook-Dewitt Center to see how it would work out for a ceremony site.
Choppy and disconnected (gotta love it)... must go to bed...
1 comment:
albin women are usually in a different room, standing on chairs, frantically calling for the demise of feral rodents that threaten the household. or they are pay the neighbor boys (if father is not home) to fend off vicious cheese-eaters. for atalie to even have participated in the attempted assault on the long-tailed tormenter is almost unbelievalble. she overcame the genetic blueprinting that screamed for her to leave the premises until the furry, fright-monster had been vastly distanced from the home. consider yourself financially fortunate that you did not incur the expense of hotel lodging until the ferocious menace had met with definitive resolution.
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