Yes, that is right. My husband went downstairs after work yesterday to discover mouse droppings in 2 different corners of our play room. Then I mentioned that I had seen something earlier in our laundry room, but thought that is was dried up rice. Well, I was very wrong. He went to that place, which was a stack of old sheets, and shook it a bit. Well, what do you know. Yep, mouse droppings came falling out. But, not only that, he also saw a mouse tail sticking out from the sheets. So he quickly took the stack of sheets and threw the whole stack outside in our -30C weather. Hopefully the mouse froze or we may have more problems. But, then who knows, there might be more. I sure hope not.
We had found some mouse traps in our house just after moving in. So we asked our landlord about it and he told us that they had found one mouse about 1 month ago. They had gotten an exterminator and "gotten it cleared up." Well, I guess that isn't the case. And it would have been nice to find out prior to moving in, because we probably never would've moved in to begin with. Well, next time we have to move somewhere I guess we should ask if there are any mouse problems.
If anybody has mouse experience and can help us out here, that would be great.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Getting There
Well, we moved into our place almost a month ago and things still aren't together. Today we put up some shelves and some pictures and it's finally getting there. I do not like the chaos of it not being all put together. I want to start decorating for Christmas, so hopefully this week we can finish things up and start on that.
We went to see Santa Claus today and there was a reindeer there too. Our son really liked the reindeer. They didn't get to sit on santa's knee because the line up was way too long, since it was the first day, but at least we got to see them. It is really cold here. I don't know what we were thinking in moving here. Today it felt like -30C with the wind chill. That is way too cold for our BC bodies! I guess we'll have to get used to this again.
We went to see Santa Claus today and there was a reindeer there too. Our son really liked the reindeer. They didn't get to sit on santa's knee because the line up was way too long, since it was the first day, but at least we got to see them. It is really cold here. I don't know what we were thinking in moving here. Today it felt like -30C with the wind chill. That is way too cold for our BC bodies! I guess we'll have to get used to this again.
Friday, November 17, 2006
the latest
Well, let's see... We moved into a nice little duplex a couple of weeks ago. It's the largest place we've had thus far. We even have a big multipurpose play room in the basement. The kids like it, mostly because that's where all the toys are.
Perhaps the biggest news at the moment is the end of my tenure as stay-at-home dad. On Tuesday I started a new job. I'm now a maintenance man at Boardwalk Rental Communities. Basically, people have problems with their suites, and I fix 'em. So far it's been mostly plumbing related. I did learn how the re-key a lock though, that was pretty cool. It's amazing how one looks at something differently when one knows what's going on in the hidden inner workings of that something (I'm talking about the locks). Right now I'm in "training" which could be translated as "call me if you have a problem". Most of the stuff I can figure out on my own so that's not so bad.
The last two days I was breezing by getting stuff done until I hit a bit of a roadblock. Yesterday, someone's kitchen sink was leaking. No prob. But upon closer inspection... big problem. I ended up spending two hours and having to turn off the hot water for the whole building. Today, I was firing along, until this time someone's bathroom sink was leaking. It was a small leak, but a big headache. I ended up busting some really old corroded pipes, which although I did break them, I'm assured that it wasn't really my fault... they had it coming. Anyway, it turned into four hours, having to call someone in to help, having to drive to a different site to pick up some parts, not actually having the right parts and in the end having to invent a new part to do the job. Ahhhh, the life of a maintenance man.
It's not where I thought I'd be at this point, but it's not that bad. The only hard part for me is how much I make. Not enough for us to live on, which is hard, but better than what I had with EI. There are many lessons that God is teaching me through this time, and I think I'm starting to learn them. Perhaps I'll talk about them in a subsequent post. If you've read this far, you're probably waiting for me to end...
Perhaps the biggest news at the moment is the end of my tenure as stay-at-home dad. On Tuesday I started a new job. I'm now a maintenance man at Boardwalk Rental Communities. Basically, people have problems with their suites, and I fix 'em. So far it's been mostly plumbing related. I did learn how the re-key a lock though, that was pretty cool. It's amazing how one looks at something differently when one knows what's going on in the hidden inner workings of that something (I'm talking about the locks). Right now I'm in "training" which could be translated as "call me if you have a problem". Most of the stuff I can figure out on my own so that's not so bad.
The last two days I was breezing by getting stuff done until I hit a bit of a roadblock. Yesterday, someone's kitchen sink was leaking. No prob. But upon closer inspection... big problem. I ended up spending two hours and having to turn off the hot water for the whole building. Today, I was firing along, until this time someone's bathroom sink was leaking. It was a small leak, but a big headache. I ended up busting some really old corroded pipes, which although I did break them, I'm assured that it wasn't really my fault... they had it coming. Anyway, it turned into four hours, having to call someone in to help, having to drive to a different site to pick up some parts, not actually having the right parts and in the end having to invent a new part to do the job. Ahhhh, the life of a maintenance man.
It's not where I thought I'd be at this point, but it's not that bad. The only hard part for me is how much I make. Not enough for us to live on, which is hard, but better than what I had with EI. There are many lessons that God is teaching me through this time, and I think I'm starting to learn them. Perhaps I'll talk about them in a subsequent post. If you've read this far, you're probably waiting for me to end...
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