Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

chrissyb

Oh Isabelle! More water?! Oh my goodness that seems to be all you have had this year!! Did you actually get to see the sunshine at all?.....lol. Is it worth bringing one or two if your cats inside to deal with the mouse problem? I would be terrified that one of the other animals would get some of that poison or eat a poisoned mouse. I guess they are just trying to keep their feet dry as well. Take it easy when you are driving your GD.



PT I agree with Eph, he needs to smile a little if not a lot.......as cute as he is he still needs to show he lives life.



Love n hugs all! Chrissy

marlegal

PT, he is gorgeous! gonna get all the young'uns, but yeah...he needs to smile!

Isabella ...how do you still make us laugh even when you write of such horrors? My heart and prayers go out to you sweetie. My mouse story ... we had a huge (over 100 lbs) dog and one year our "twin" neighbors (we share a wall) knocked down their back porch to build an addition. Apparently there were mouse colonies under there that didn't like being uprooted, and they all came to our house. We would sit and watch these mice come out and walk around the dog's bowl - remember, he was over 100 lbs - and they'd eat his food and he'd lay there watching them. Hello?? I was more pissed off that he didn't chase them than the fact we had mice!

duckyb1

Hi Ladies.........talk about mice. Have you ever had one eat your friggin dishwasher pump. Mine did. When the GE repair guy told me that near fell off the chair. Well they fixed the dishwasher for free. I plugged all the holes, an was good to go. Well Igot an exterminator for spiders and ants. The damn guy sees the kick plate off the dishwasher and decides...on his own....to put 2big trays of poison under the dishwasher........the other day the dishwasher stops working again. GE came back today. The friggin mouse ate my pump again. Am I pissed or what. So thanks to the exterminator I need another pump. It could only happen to me. Guess the mouse thought.........Whoa...even I get Thanksgiving dinner.......

duckyb1

Shore house survived Sandy. Thank heavens.

chabba

Wonderful ducky.

barbe1958

ducky I don't get it. Why was the kick plate still off and how did the exterminator cause the mouse to eat the pump? Is the mouse breaking into the pump for food scraps? That's a new one to me!

marlegal

ducky, we had mice for a few months when neighbor excavated backyard...they liked our dog's dry food and would fight over it, right in front of us!! (And the dog, who was huge by the way!) If anyone ever figures out how their mind works, please share!!

Glad the shore house is ok...our campground was spared too.

QCA

I don't get it either, ducky, unless the mouse got into there to find food scraps and the poison didn't get him.  Mice are so gross!  So glad you had no Sandy damage!

Isabella, I'm so sorry you're under a deluge.  With all the rain you've already had this is adding insult to injury!  Glad the police checked on you, even if they did scare you a bit.   At least they know you're out there and are checking.  Hope you dry out soon.

The tree is up and decorated, the earliest we've ever done it.  We're getting one last year out of this artificial tree, and DH put it up, got all the decorations out of the garage, and then disappeared to go work on the set for the church play.  My artist husband leaves me, with not one artistic gene in my makeup, to decorate it.  It took me about 3 hours but I have to say it looks pretty good.  Even used my bow making skills, acquired this summer for DD's wedding, to make a bow for the top. 

Thursday's doctor day, with a morning appt with GP and an afternoon one with eye dr.  At least no onco appt and for that I'm thankful.  I know the opthalmologist wants to schedule me for cataract surgery, but I really don't want to do it before Christmas.  Must talk with her further about it.  All I know is that I have them in both eyes, but so far, no noticeable effects to me. 

Hope all are having a great week.

Kathy

chabba

When I was in high school we lived in an old house with dormer windows. The ceiling above my bed slanted rather steeply down to about two feet from the floor.  Every night when I went to bed and settled down to sleep the mice would play games right over my head using the ceiling as slide.  Run up, slide down, run up, slide down over and over!

Eph3_12

ooooo Chabba, those must have Cinderella's mice. 

chabba

Perhaps.  At that time I did tend to feel like Cinderella before she met the good fairy.

duckyb1

It is my understanding there is something in the material the pump is made of that a mouse (if it gets under the dishwasher)will smell , whatever this chemical is, and begin to gnaw on the pump. Also I had gotten rid of the first mouse, plugged the holes, and no trace of a mouse. Once the exterminator put 2large trays of poison under the dishwasher, it gave anything new that came something to eat. ALS poison causes them to look for water, and all the water parts of the dishwasher are right there.



The kick plate was off because the first repair guy forgot to put it back on, then the exterminator after putting the poison did not put it back

No food scraps would be in the pump cause that is all flushed out when the dishwasher drains. Trust me, I saw the chewed pump. It wasn't even greasy, let alone any food scraps.





I was told this is very unusual, and the repair girl who came the 2nd time said she had seen it maybe 10 times in her 10 years working for GE. She said....you keep your house too clean. Nothing for them to eat, so once they finished the poison, they went for the pump........plus there was no entry for them into the main kitchen area, since all the holes were filled with

steel wool.

Oh we'll shit happens. I was told to rub peppermint oil on the pump, and also to put ammonia on the floor under the dishwasher. And so on, and so on.

Valjean

ducky, I know the peppermint oil does work. After mice chewed on/through a hose on my DH's lawn tractor in our shed one year, I did some research & told him to rub pure peppermint oil all over it the next year to stop them. He still does it every winter.

Alyson

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISSY

It is already her birthday here. 5th December. So thought I would give her an extra long party.

chabba

Thanks Alyson.

Happy Birthday Chrissy

QCA

Happy birthday, dear Chrissy!  Hope it's as wonderful as you are!

Kathy

chrissyb

Lol thanks girls its turning out to be a wonderful day!

Aly I'm giggling every thread I open......lol.......only you would think of doing this......thanks friend.



Love n hugs. Chrissy

Eph3_12

so happy day before the day of your birth from Oregon USA ChrissyB

Wren44

Happy Birthday Crissy! (I'm not going to worry about the time change.)

lassie11

Very Happy birthday wishes from Canada to you Chrissy!

chrissyb

Thanks all......I am feeling very loved.



Love n hugs right back at you!! Chrissy

Isabella4

Just wondering... do any of you have pet names for your grandchildren ??

I tend to call the boys (well, mostly young men now) 'Fishface', and the girls are all 'Sweetheart ' I was at a christening this afternoon, and a lady just constantly bleated 'Chick..en'  'Chick..en' at the poor baby. Suppose, on reflection , it IS marginally better than my 'Fishface' !( I used to be 'Fishface' to my art teacher at school !)

We have had a complete change of weather, quite mild, very sunny and pleasant. Just the sort of day for a nice long walk....pity I was tied up with a christening! Have spent the rest of my evening wrapping presents, am sick and tired of this job. However I try I never seem to make a good job. I just got some lovely gold paper, covered in sparkly bits for DDs present. I bought her a great big bible of a book of horses, mainly from a german photographer, absolutely beautiful, and some silver bangles. What did I do? Stick my finger thru' it just as I was making the last sweep with the sticky tape!

I have a little dog who loves it when I am wrapping, she sits and waits for me to clip bits off the paper, and rushes up, grabs the pieces as they fall on the floor, and dashes off with them into her bed...like a little magpie !

I did a stupid thing, while I was out DH said he would come up and cut me back an ivy  that has gone beserk and climbed all over where it shouldn't. He cut it back alright, but trampled 2 lovely winter flowering shrubs into oblivion not looking what he was doing....I haven't the energy to squawk at him ( 'til tomorrow !) Men !!

Isabella.

chrissyb

Isabella you should know by now that that man can't do anything with out wrecking something else! I'd be as mad as hell at him! Sure hope those shrubs will come back.



Love n hugs. Chrissy

Gingerbrew

Chrissy you are spot on!  My DH pulled out an entire bed of HollyHocks! He said he never knew they were there!  

Isabella my Grandma used to call me PicklePuss when I was being sullen as a child. I know she had sweeter names for me but I remember that one best.   I use Sweetie myself for the Grands. If I was around the older ones more, distance involved, I would likely have some less sweet names for them myself. I rather like Fish Face. 

Ginger

chrissyb

Isabella two of my GS's have nick names but not the other two. The two from my DD are Smutter for the eldest and Fwanni for the younger. My DD named the first and we took our cue from him for the younger. The elder was only two when his brother arrived and of course still learning to speak so he couldn't say Harrison. He used to say H'fwan then his Aunt shortened it to Fwan and then to Fwanni and it stuck! Mind you he only allowes the family to call him that everyone else calls him Harry.

macatacmv

When my kids were little one morning I asked my DD if she would like a piece of fruit. It came out would you like a bananadawn? My DS thought it sounded like a dinosaur name and it stuck. He still uses it today to tease her. My DSs name is Duncan. He became dunky or spunky. His great grandfather had the same name, he was a fisherman and everyone called him Ducky. Still waiting for grandbabies.

QCA

I'm about to give this 2nd grandson the nickname "stubborn" because his parents just got sent home from the hospital for the 2nd time today! 

Kathy

chrissyb

Lol Kathy, he'll come in his own sweet time............but ooooh the waiting is excruciating!

QCA

I know, Chrissy, and they seem to be in good spirits despite being sent home twice.  We just got word that DIL's mother has arrived so perhaps we won't get a call to come get DGS in the middle of the night!

Kathy

barbe1958

Kathy, for a second baby, I'm surprised they're sending her home!! Labour could be really fast! Keep us posted!!!