Everyone sounds busy and most of you are tired of rain. Even our high Rockies are getting plenty. Some parts of the Rockies got cold enough to snow…. Yeah, the day before Summer Solstice.
DH was finally able to get the old van running. Ahem, we didn’t use it for hauling hay this past fall …or any other time. So we had rodents of some sort in the engine. Squirrels, mice, rats, bunnies…. And yes they DID chew up distributor wires. Half of them. 3 trips to town in past 2 days to finally get parts he needed. Van is very old and had to order but came next day. It fired up…fortunately he had the manual for getting the firing order right. We’d had a deluge of rain/hail some time back…for hours! Put great channels in the driveway and the van is the only thing that should be pulling the heavy drag. I did some shovel work for diversion ditch…..we’ll see how that works.
Our mice ignore full strength essential oil peppermint. ‘Course our hordes of mice had no control from ANY method until we could finally use poison. Yeah, we tried the plaster in cornmeal….and it might have worked but who can tell? There were so many mice….we didn’t see a noticeable difference. They did eat it. I knew it wouldn’t hurt my cat if they wandered up. Now she’s gone and we use the green rodent ‘candy’. But for the van….there is poison in there but maybe it ran out. One suggestion we got was to lift the cover on engine so it’s not nice and cozy. Since we have old van with that part of engine inside the vehicle between the front seats, we’re going to do that. Running it more often would help. Rural living = rodents…..and lions, and coyotes, and bears, and bobcats, and…..SKUNK the last two nites. Dog barks her head off smelling it. Uff tah!
It’s all about rain this year, isn’t it? Unless one is from the far SW where they have a bad dry spell. 🙁 And fires. CA is having their electricity shut off preemptively. 😮 So PGandE doesn’t get blamed for their broken wires causing fires. Wellllll, that’s one way to handle it. >_<
Since surgery I’ve been struggling!!! But finally, I’m feeling more normal. I took car and clocked out a quarter and a half mile down the road. Now I’ve walked a half mile a couple times this week. Walk with a big dog and a cane….but it’s a great improvement for this old mountain woman! 🙂