Ronnie Down Under

Buying an old house means hiring someone to make repairs, making repairs yourself, or both. We have chosen to do both. Some repairs, like new ceilings, we are hiring someone to do but other things, like painting, we feel we can do ourselves. Here’s a photograph Mary took of me jacking up the corner of our house to install a new stump (support). Now our kitchen floor is much more level than it was when we moved in. The jack is a heavy duty high lift jack made for use with 4x4 trucks in rugged areas. My brother-in-law Bill gave me the jack. I hope this is the only time I need to use it.

We finally received the “live trap” mouse trap from “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” so that we can get rid of the mice we have in our house. I followed the instructions that came with the trap and within fifteen minutes had captured the first mouse. Here’s a photo:



We knew that we had at least two mice because we saw two different sizes of mice running around the living room. So, I set the trap again and caught another mouse within about thirty minutes. This one was about the same size as the first so I figured we must have at least three of them so I kept setting the trap, catching mice and then releasing them out in the middle of a field across the street from our house which is their natural habitat. Over a twenty four hour period we caught eight mice. That was about two weeks ago and we have only caught one more since then.

I sure do miss having them around.