Week in review

On mon­day the floor was finally fin­ished. What was sup­posed to be a one to one and a half day’s job, turned out to be a bit more than that, and we enjoyed 5 days of dust. Yay. But the floor looks good now.

On Thurs­day last week Karen and John dropped in with a cou­ple of pet mice for Lilly. Now, I know that some may frown imme­di­ately when they read pet mice, and yes, I was less than excited by the prospect, although Elmo seems to be quite happy with the whole thing.……

So how did we end up with pet mice?

Karen and John have a big python in a glass cage down at the shed. The python lived on their prop­erty, so john decided to keep it. And nat­u­rally, even snakes have to eat. So of they trot­ted, to the pet shop. And they bought two small mice. Food for the snake. So for two weeks, the mice where in the cage with the python. The snake didn’t even so much as take a sniff at them. He would curl up, and the mice would go to sleep on top of the curled up snake.

So, one day, John found a rat. He decided to throw that one in with the snake. The rat had barely hit the bot­tom of the cage and the snake had him gob­bled up. Can you imag­ine the poor lit­tle mice look­ing on dur­ing that lit­tle episode? So, the les­son.… This snake doesn’t like mice, but loves the odd rat.

So we got the mice. That is, until Elmo does!

Next week we have our co visit. No doubt it’ll be a busy week. That Fri­day, Reilly is of to the US with the Pen­folds. Lilly and me will be by our­selves for ten days. Poor Lil!