Tiny Tim (my new friend) enjoys crafting as much as I do!
It's been a great joy to visit with him and see him play. Am really surprised how willing he is to allow me to take pictures! For several shots he would just sit there, sometimes looking at me, sometimes away... sometimes with his front legs up and sometimes down. He even attempted to get up on my couch with me! I had a can of coke that I set on the floor, so I could use both hands with the camera and he even attempted to climb on that!Though it has been quite exciting, I am hoping that by tomorrow morning I can say a final farewell to him. He appears to be REALLY hungry, so hopefully he will enjoy the peanut butter that will be served just for him. As he enjoys his meal, may he know that though I have enjoyed his company, I really enjoy living alone.
But wanted to share some pictures of my friend, before he leaves me!
~jen~
17 comments:
Wow, it looks like a rat! How did
he get in? Be careful so you don't
get bit! dk
That is DISGUSTING!!!!! I can't believe you had the nerves to take the picture. I would have been quickly packing clothes and moving out until someone made the rodent leave!
Heather
That's great, Heather! I was actually telling Tiny Tim about you. When he came VERY close to my feet, I told him that you would have jumped on to the back of the couch and as soon as he disappeared, would have run out the door as fast as you could! I can't help but remember the note you left on the trap by the washer! :)
~jen~
Let me get this right, you don't bat an eye about having baby goats and the like in the house but freak out about a wee little mouse? Just for clarification purposes. Ivan
Thought maybe I should add that you may not want to come over to our house until we take care of our visitors. We're not sure what or who they are but they have helped themselves to a half a loaf of bread in one sitting and a whole bag of regular size Reese's peanut butter cups(about 14 qty) in the next sitting. I guess they wanted dessert. Hungry little buggers! Wonder if a normal mouse can carry off a half loaf of bread without leaving more than two little crumbs and 14 peanut butter cups still in wrappers without leaving a trace other than the empty bag, they could at least have thrown that away for me. I guess a little housekeeping training is in order if we can't get rid of them. I'm thinking it may actually be squirrels or something I don't know. Ivan
Ivan, I remember working in Monticello and i would leave my pack of cigerettes on the ledge in the garage. They disappeared! Thinking that it was the clients, I began getting nervous! Only to find out that the cigerettes were under a pile of wood, that was up off the floor a couple inches. A chipmunk was attempting to eat them! Almost a full pack, only one was taken out, when i had left them. All 19 had little bite marks in them! :)
~j~
A little mouse is a dirty rodent. My goats are "kids". See the difference? I've been known to sit on a top of a refridgerator to avoid a mouse and nearly having a stroke at the sight of one. I don't do well with them. By the way... bats are flying mice (can't stand them) and moths are baby bats (YUCK!). I have issues.
Heather
Heather, are you saying that Tiny Tim looks dirty?
If Tiny Tim looks dirty ... perhaps he can learn to take showers with Oreo. She took one last night. Came out looking like a drowned rat. I am mighty impressed that you'd take a picture of your friend before he leaves your place. Ivan ... I don't think I want to know what size critter made off with half the bread. I'll agree to many things. Rodents has been the one thing I will not give in on. Tiny Tim included. And if it leaves with the Reeses ... it's in Big Trouble!!
-a
Recall an embarrassing moment. We
had mice with babies. The babies wouldn't spring the trap, so light they just ran over them. Paul Nevala was for services on the Range and was at our house for a meal. I commented on the mice and he said he's been watching them run around!
Then when Jen was a baby and Paul/
Kathy Riutta from IL were over,
checking out the Iron Range. They
ended up moving to the UP. Got up in the middle of the night to get a bottle for Jen and Paul was in the kitchen with a flashlight,
looking behind the frig. He said he saw a mouse. Told him to go to
bed, you'll never catch it anyway.
Next time I see him I'll have to ask if he remembers. Oh, perhaps that's why they didn't move to the
Iron Range!! dk
Well jen, I hate to say it, but tiny tim is NOT cute at all, and I would never have taken a picture of him! I would have been chasing him with a broom! Or rather, Frans would have been after him, and I would have been on the back of the couch with Heather!
Jenny
Jenny is lyin. If she can take a hundred pics of termites hangin from the ceiling she would take a pic or two of a mouse.
Frans
I like this Blog! Any mice at
Westview Drive? None in Brainerd
but we still have box elder bugs
coming into the halls and into the
hall light fixtures. We did have an issue with tiny ants a few years
ago. They were amazing. Put out some sticky stuff for them. Hundreds stuck. In the morning every last one of them was gone!!dk
Yuck! Not looking forward to box elder bug and lady bug season in the spring/summer, not to mention the bees. Most of the time we never see them but whenever we'd eat outside someone would send them an invite and we'd be swarmed! I don't know where they come from so next to impossible to get rid of them. Maybe next summer we'll have to have a cookout and when the bees come I'll catch one and put a homing collar on it so I can follow it to it's nest and eliminate it. Think that'll work? As far as our visitor goes we still don't know what it is or who it is, maybe it's a ghost or something. I swear I heard a door close today before I left for work but I had the doors locked! Interesting Ivan
Wow! This comment section is getting long. Good post Jen
Tiny Tim and five of his friends have departed my apartment. Once again it is quiet! No more rustling of the plastic bags, or hearing the clunk as they walk the trim of the garbage can and fall in, or the clanking of the ceramics as they are trying to maneuver in my box that is filled with it. Nope, none of that, only the ticking of the clock is heard!
Ivan, I sure would love to see you putting a collar on a bee! :)
~jen~
Several times through this discussion, particularly when rats where mentioned, I was going to post about Susan's only request this Christmas. Every night when I would come home from work, there would be an entertaining note on the table. It always included, "All I want for Christmas is a rat!" She would have check boxes, pictures, fill in the blanks, etc., encouraging us to get her a rat.
Why a rat? Well, in class, they did an experiment with 2 rats. One they fed sugar water and the other its normal food. Susan loved the one that was fed sugar water because it was always moving around looking for excitement. She can imitate it pretty well :) The other rat like to just sleep in its sock. At the end of the experiment, there was a drawing for the lucky recipient of each rat. Much to her dismay, we didn't enter the drawing. (I told her we brought much joy to another family this way.)
Please don't feel sorry for her to the point that you gift her with a rat. Kathryn would enjoy playing with it and would forget to latch the cage. We would then be calling Jen for traps!
Oh, by the way, the notes continue, but now they start with "All I want for Easter..."
-b
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