about two weeks ago, Mattan wanted me to get toys from behind the couch. i took the most usefull tool in the house - the "rescuer" and grabbed what was in there, it had 4 legs and a short hairless tail, and was also dead. a debate begun, Alla wanted to call Arnold Schwarzenegger , gas the house and use some napalm on the chimney. i proposed that this is a field mice and the only one of its kind, we waited for more "evidence" which came the day before yesterday in the form of the parents of previous sample . i went to Walmart and found my self in the kill a rat isle.they had lots of choices, some are catch only and some are kill, the snappy kind. there was also poison and other friendly methods. i got one catch system and one kill system, but since Mattan goes everywhere, opted to setup the catch one.the night was without luck and in the morning i found where it has been living, there is a little hole in the edge of the carpet and i move the trap there and now there is a mice inside trying to get out. the trap says to release it two miles away, perhaps they can return if it is less, so today i will drive for a while and let it go somewhere.
last weekend i was with the kids while Alla was working, i placed Tal in the stroller as we were heading for a gultat "trip" to the duck pond. Mattan is becoming too independent and opened the door to go first, i rushed after him with the stroller and closed the door beyond me, only to realize that the door is locked on the inside, the garage door is closed and the back door as well. the only way in is via mouse pathways but mattan didn't want to crawl. lucky i had a phone with 10% charge. while waiting for rescue we admired the house across the street. strains of toilet paper were covering the trees, lots and lots of them. I heard about this prank and seen it in movies but never saw it for real, very funny if its someone else's house. high schoollers live there and they said the "soccer team" did that. so they called some friends brought ladders and started to remove the TP, they got most of it, but still a week later the tops of the trees are full of TP. if you need to go, you know where to get some.
anywho, we walked to the pond, no ducks at this time and Mattan decides to baby him self up and sit in the stroller while i carry tal. two mile bottle and my phone are on the stroller.
at one point mattan decided to open the top cover and does it fast. i see the milk bottles and my phone fly out above the cart. i pick up the milk bottles and start looking for my phone, i comb the grass and nothing, there is a drain nearby and i look thorough and see something back glistening in the light , i cant believe it is the phone , the drain is too narrow,i am not that unlucky am i? few more minutes of search and then we had home and Dina comes with the rescue keys, i had back with Mattan and the rescue device, now without holding Tal it is easier to search, we increase the search area, and nothing, i can now better check the drain and find that it was a rock that resembled my phone in the water below. thought i am sure i saw my phone fly in the air, we go back to the pond and search the paths. nothing. there is only one place left, i decide to strip search the stroller and i find another opening i never knew existed and there in a pile of milk i see my phone, alive and ticking.
festival season continues. we went to an Armenian festival. were were there last year. Mattan slid on the metal slide and i caught him and would get static shock every time, now he can go alone. yeh, no more shocks.
yesterday we went to the fall fast. first to Eddies farm for apple picking. beautiful day, blue skies, nice and warm. we took some bags and started picking. the main battle was to slow down Mattan from filling the bag to fast, so i had him pick one in every few trees and run him a round, too much energy, we ate some apples straight from the trees, very yummi, feels much better then the store bought ones, we picked some pears and tried the grapes but they were the wine making kind, just too sweet. we end up with 2.5 bags of apples and no clue as to what to do with them.
i took Mattanchuck to his first orienteering event. we did the easy course, but still over 2 miles , some in small paths and some in the forest, mattan wanted to find a big fat bear from one of his books which kept him occupied. this hike was in a very nice scouts camp. some people were shooting rockets that fly op a 100 meters of so and then parachute down most cool, cant wait for him to start scouts.
night feeding is a good time to practice skills, broke my record in Words with friends... 582 woowhoo.
cheers from the rat infested house -1
