Miscellaneous Updates
VN is not staying with me any longer. She was only here for a week.
She was referred to a friend of a friend who had space for her and her St Bernard. She now gets free rent in exchange for housework and dog sitting.
Good deal.
It took JJ over a week to get JMJ into a school. I was talking to JMJ last night... he did not go to school yesterday. He was not feeling well.
I asked what his symptoms were. He said his ear is bothering him, and he has an upset stomach.
I recognize those symptoms.
The ear is unrelated to the stomache. His ear will bother him if there are allergens in his environment. He has a prescription nasal spray for that.
The upset stomach is stress.
He gets that most years at the beginning of school. He had a huge change this year... from a small class group and two or three teachers, into a high-school with 2000 students, and a class schedule to follow.
Hid dad likely has no idea about it. I know I told him about it each year. But he had no interest in being a parent. It was outside his realm of experience, so he paid it no mind.
Now, he is the parent.
He has alot to learn.
And he does not talk to me anymore.
He could learn from my experience. After all, he is a parent to my child. Who else could help him more?
I know he will not ask. I guess I should send him a brief email about it.
And try not to sound like I am telling him what to do.
The cat is still not using the kitty door. He does not like it.
At 5am today, I got up to let him out, and then discovered he had pooped where the litter box used to be. Other mornings, I have found a poop in the bathtub.
He is trying to be a clean cat. It is just tough for him right now, because I am as stubborn as he is.
I was catching up on laundry yesterday. After folding IJs clothes, I went to put them away. Usually, I tell him to put them away. This time, there was so much laundry, that I did not want to wait for him to come home from school, so I did it.
I started putting clean clothes into his drawers, and then I saw it: Rat Poop! In his drawer!
So I checked his other drawers.
They all had rat poop in them.
I took the drawers into the bathroom one at a time, and washed the contents. The bathtub is currently full of empty drawers. I need to sanitize them still. The clothes have all been sanitized.
The rat man came to check on the traps yesterday... they were all empty! So I now have only 1 trap inside the house... on top of the hot water tank, where they get into the house. There are 10 or so traps under the house. The idea is to catch them before they get inside.
The fact that no rats were trapped this time is a good thing. It means we got them! The rat man figures I had just one family of rats inside. I know the mother ate the poison I set out. We saw some dead babies, and the rat man caught a few half-grown rats (so did the cat).
The rat man will be back in a month to check traps again. If there are still no rats, he will come about every 6 weeks.
The trailer park management paid for the initial setup. I just have to pay the rat man for the follow-up visits, at $75/visit.
I plan to keep him.
VN is not staying with me any longer. She was only here for a week.
She was referred to a friend of a friend who had space for her and her St Bernard. She now gets free rent in exchange for housework and dog sitting.
Good deal.
It took JJ over a week to get JMJ into a school. I was talking to JMJ last night... he did not go to school yesterday. He was not feeling well.
I asked what his symptoms were. He said his ear is bothering him, and he has an upset stomach.
I recognize those symptoms.
The ear is unrelated to the stomache. His ear will bother him if there are allergens in his environment. He has a prescription nasal spray for that.
The upset stomach is stress.
He gets that most years at the beginning of school. He had a huge change this year... from a small class group and two or three teachers, into a high-school with 2000 students, and a class schedule to follow.
Hid dad likely has no idea about it. I know I told him about it each year. But he had no interest in being a parent. It was outside his realm of experience, so he paid it no mind.
Now, he is the parent.
He has alot to learn.
And he does not talk to me anymore.
He could learn from my experience. After all, he is a parent to my child. Who else could help him more?
I know he will not ask. I guess I should send him a brief email about it.
And try not to sound like I am telling him what to do.
The cat is still not using the kitty door. He does not like it.
At 5am today, I got up to let him out, and then discovered he had pooped where the litter box used to be. Other mornings, I have found a poop in the bathtub.
He is trying to be a clean cat. It is just tough for him right now, because I am as stubborn as he is.
I was catching up on laundry yesterday. After folding IJs clothes, I went to put them away. Usually, I tell him to put them away. This time, there was so much laundry, that I did not want to wait for him to come home from school, so I did it.
I started putting clean clothes into his drawers, and then I saw it: Rat Poop! In his drawer!
So I checked his other drawers.
They all had rat poop in them.
I took the drawers into the bathroom one at a time, and washed the contents. The bathtub is currently full of empty drawers. I need to sanitize them still. The clothes have all been sanitized.
The rat man came to check on the traps yesterday... they were all empty! So I now have only 1 trap inside the house... on top of the hot water tank, where they get into the house. There are 10 or so traps under the house. The idea is to catch them before they get inside.
The fact that no rats were trapped this time is a good thing. It means we got them! The rat man figures I had just one family of rats inside. I know the mother ate the poison I set out. We saw some dead babies, and the rat man caught a few half-grown rats (so did the cat).
The rat man will be back in a month to check traps again. If there are still no rats, he will come about every 6 weeks.
The trailer park management paid for the initial setup. I just have to pay the rat man for the follow-up visits, at $75/visit.
I plan to keep him.
posted by Tempeste at Thursday, September 20, 2007
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