Mice Stink

Yeah, so, we've now caught NINE mice in our apartment. Ridiculous!!!

*****************************************************************

A little update...make that TEN!

More Fall Yummy-ness

With the continued cooler (and drearier) weather today I was still feeling the fall mood. I made these sugar cookies:



and applesauce:


and triple chocolate muffins (which are REALLY yummy):


Now, on a less (or not at all) yummy note, we have officially caught 6 baby mice, so we're hoping that's all of them.

Happy Autumn, everyone! Go bake something!

My Fall Decorations

Some of these (the wreath) I already had up. But, since I had the day at home, I decided to do some more extensive decorating.

Here are the decorations in front of the window (thanks Mom and Dad for the straw):


Here's my wreath on the front door:


I have these sitting by the steps inside:


This is the center piece on my dining table:


This is the center piece on top of the piano:


And this is everything on top of the piano:


I just felt like Fall today!

Funny "Life Sucks" Stuff

Blair and I wound up catching three baby mice last night when all was said and done. Still waiting to see if more are caught.

We went to a wedding in Franklin today. It was outside and gorgeous! We had a lot of fun chatting with Blair's friends from growing up. When we got home, Blair went upstairs to the bedroom to change. That's where Murray stays when we're gone, so when he said "Uh-Oh" I thought Murray had torn something up. So, I went upstairs preparing myself to see the damage. Blair was standing in front of his closet, looking at this:




The shelf in Blair's closet with ALL of his clothing on it had fallen off of the wall while we were gone. I can only imagine how startled Murray must have been!

More Mice Updates

We finally caught the mouse, as I mentioned yesterday. Tonight, I was doing the laundry while Blair was at the football game, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. I looked and saw a little gray tail run behind the dryer!! I immediately put down a glue board and turned to get another. By the time I had turned back around, I had caught a mouse!! A BABY mouse!! The original mouse had babies in my apartment!! I now have two caught and at least one (maybe two) on the loose still!!

Mouse Update

we caught it!!

oh yeah...

we have yet ANOTHER mouse in the apartment!

The Many Things that have Happened

This will probably be a very long blog. To start, my mother-in-law was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She had an appointment with her doctor at Vanderbilt Friday, so Blair and I canceled our weekend anniversary plans and left at 7 in the morning for Nashville. The DeePhil had given us directions to the clinic ahead of time, and I had entered the address into my GPS. Now, in Nashville, many of the streets have North or South as part of the street name and that N or S is very very important. Somehow, the lady giving the DeePhil the address for the clinic gave them the right street number but the wrong compass direction. We wound up on Jefferson street. For those of you who don't know, Jefferson street is the last street in Nashville you want to wind up on. Blair called his parents to figure out what went wrong and his mom told us to "Get the H**l out of Dodge." We finally made it to the clinic, and Dee is going to have surgery on the 25. They're doing a lumpectomy. We then proceeded to camp out in the DeePhil's yard for three nights, while we listened to his brother rant and rave and had several locals ask when we were going to have children. We ended the weekend in Green Hills. We went to my favorite yarn store, Wild Oats (a new favorite), and the mall.

Yesterday, I subbed in a third grade class ( I actually TAUGHT 5 subjects) and had a great time.

I have a new FO off of my needles. It's a head wrap for those of us with long hair who don't want to wear a pony tail under a hat. I used the same yarn I used for the eyelet sweater I just finished, and I have enough left, that I'm going to make some gloves.

I think that covers pretty much all of it!

lots to catch up on

I know I have many much blogging to do, but I'm too tired to do it now. Today is mine and Blair's second anniversary and we just spent the past four days with his family. Lots to tell.

I just took this off my needles.

It only took a week, so it's a really quick knit. It fits like a dream and is SOOOOO SOFT!! It's a cropped, 3/4 lenghth sleeve and completely fantastic. I love this pattern!

I've been busy...I guess

So, surprise surprise, I haven't been working on my cardigan because I'm working on another, well, two other...alright alright...THREE other projects right now. I'm almost finished with two of them and will post pics when I'm done.

I invented a new recipe tonight...I think. I cooked two servings of penne pasta and added enough Italian Dressing to cover it, a hard boiled egg, cumin, and Italian seasoning. It's really really good, especially with a couple of slices of swiss cheese on the side. You should try it, all my little blog groupies!