So so much shit. Mouse shit that is. Hopefully there will be some progress on the chicken coop this blog as well. I will see how the week progresses. Let's begin with the mouse shit.
Monday Chicken count:5
A few weeks before this, I found the basement door to the outside wide open. The kids had been running in and out from down there and I assumed they had shut it behind them. I was wrong. Now we are overrun with mice. They have begun coming upstairs again. When we got home from Edmonton I found mouse shit all over in the upstairs living room. This led to a crazy upstairs clean as mentioned in my last blog. Now I knew if upstairs was this bad then the basement would be worse as the mice have never fully gone down there. I was correct. It was hard to see under the mess the kids managed to make in less than two days (despite being told to clean it up many times). They ended up not being able to go to gymnastics to clean up said mess. We ended up throwing out some stuffies and other stuff. We are cleaning space by space until we have got it all. After we finish that we have bought and will place out more traps. Yay.... more dead mice. I also discovered many things that need to be hung and have made the decision that if not up in two weeks we probably don't need it.
Tuesday Chicken count:4
We continue to have trouble with coyotes. They seem to be picking off the chickens a little at a time. I think we will be putting the remaining into the coop with the new chickens in the hopes to keep them alive. I will keep you all updated on how that goes. Hopefully the new rooster and chickens will accept them.
Wednesday Chicken count:3
The new chickens accepted the old chickens with no issues! Their lives are saved. They aren't super happy about it, but they won't be picked off by the coyotes anymore. We are going to get a little more work done on the chicken coop so hopefully they can be moved before the first snow.
The mouse problem is slowing being solved. Three mice down and there has been less clean up the last two days. I am still vacuuming everyday and cleaning the counters. I wish I wasn't so tired.
I have been using my CPAP religiously. I have used it at least 7 hours every night even when I am hardly sleeping because of it. I am hoping that I will adjust faster if I do this. So far I am just equally to more tired than I was before the CPAP. I may also be getting sick which often happens when my allergies are bad and I don't sleep. I also woke up with a migraine so joy! No update on James, we are still on hold and trying to get things ready for when he is off hold.
That is the blog. It is once again a mostly pictureless blog. I am going to be doing some food prep, baking and Halloween prepping and decorating in the next few weeks so look forward to more pictures! Halloween is my favourite!!! I don't think you all want to see the mouse poop though. Talk to you all later!
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