Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Mamaboid]

Now, queen mum. A chance at seeing two snakes being "romantic" is a rare thing. Honestly, you should have taken some pics for me.

lol

There was a mouse in a wood pile the other day..............I landed on the hood of the truck screaming "eeeeby gee woka, bi dee osh gamma". I have no idea what all that means.

At my house that translates into OMG honey, there is a stinking spider in the house and if you don't kill it right now, I am moving into the chicken house. Mice don't bother me, snakes don't bother me, but God I HATE spiders. Isn't it funny how we all have the same reactions to our particular phobias, and the language is the same for all of them.

 

[autumnprairie]

I told QM that if it was me I would be moving. I only like snakes on my terms and in Arkansas we have EVERY poisonous snake in the USA right here. Moth balls and glue traps are my best friends, I don't like poisonous anything snake or spider

 

[redtailgal]

would rather deal with an anaconda than a mouse.

Yup. I'm THAT sensible.

 

[Queen Mum]

I really don't mind snakes.

I actually picked up a rattle snake from a drawer and carried it outside and to let it go. BUT it had a full tummy from eating a mouse and was completely sluggish at the time.

But when there are two of them and I don't know anything about their personalities (aggressive vs passive) and they are hissing and crawling all over each other in a "love" dance, I'm not about to grab them both behind the head and dance outside with them.

Now mice, they send me into a tizzy. I hate them.

I am learning all about wildlife in Arkansas. Snakes, turtles, spiders, raccoons, possums, armadillos and did I mentions squirrels.

If one is the praying kind, one should say a prayer for the squirrel that currently resides in the walls of my home. That little fella (or gal) is a cheeky little squirt. A couple weeks ago I caught it trying to drag half of a bag of cheese popcorn through a hole under my sink!

Last evening, I was sitting at the computer typing as I am now and I heard a scritching and a scratching coming from the walls behind me. I walked over to the nook and noticed that one of the four hooks (an old mirror holder) had been pushed out of the wall. There was a neat little round hole and the hook was hanging by the paper from the drywall below. I pushed the hook back in to place.
I went back to typing.

A few moments later, that same scritching and scratching occurred again. Pop, out came the hook followed by a little greybrown nose. Then an eye looked through the hole. An indignant eye! It was the eye of an indignant squirrel... IN MY WALLS! I pushed the hook back firmly into place and banged on the wall. There was a momentary silence and the hook was pushed back out - almost explosively! I pushed it back in and taped it into place. It was pushed back out again, this time with more force. I pushed it in and used duct tape to hold it in place and then pushed a box up against it to keep it in place. I heard scrabbling behind the box. Then the hook next to it started to move, so I pushed a box up against it. I banged on the wall.

Sara one, squirrel none. Or so I thought. The scrabbling moved to my bedroom. Sigh! I hope my lights dont go out. The electrical outlet is duct taped to the wall to prevent further entry by snakes. (I havent likewise protected the ceiling fixture.)

I am beginning to dislike squirrels. Or at least this one.

And what is up with those MUD DAUBERS? Half of the outlets in my house don't work because the mud daubers messed up the electrical panel in my house. It was FILLED to the brim with their mud dauber nests. You could barely see the breaker switches for the mud/cement.

 

[marlowmanor]

Sounds like you need to get an exterminator to the house. They could rid it of the mud daubers and the squirrels and snakes. Squirrels are not good to have in the house they can chew the electrical wires and cause a fire. All the squirrels around our house stay outside! We do hear them scrabble across the roof occassionally though.

 

[Queen Mum]

OK, I'm praying and praying hard today. Yesterday, I got a call from the storage company and my debit charge for my storage unit was declined.

I called my bank and they had disabled my debit card for "Misuse of my debit card".

It seems that last month I had written a check for rent and when I realized I was ten dollars over the balance I asked my daughter to put $25 in my account to cover it. I called her this morning and she said she forgot. It seems the rent check overdrew the account. The bank charged me an extra $35.00 and paid the check. I haven't done anything about because my daughter never told me that she forgot to deposit the $25.00. The bank didn't send me a notice in the mail because they didn't correct my mailing address till last week. So the account has been sitting there overdrawn.

Then the storage company tried to pull funds to pay for my storage unit a day before my monthly check went in to the bank. (They aren't supposed to debit the account till the third.) The bank usually holds the payment till midnight when the funds come through. This time they just disabled my debit card, rejected the payment and marked the account as a misuse of the debit card. OF COURSE THE BANK CHARGED ME ANOTHER $35 FOR THE ERROR!

NOW I had to hand pay all of my bills today and the overdraft fees used up every last cent of my funds which means NO gas for the whole month. I was going to go to the sale barn and sell two of my kid goats so I could get plywood and nails to finish my goat shed and buy feed for the goats. Now I don't have feed for the goats for this month, no shelter for them to live in, no gas to get the kids to the sale barn, no money for food for the month. NOTHING! All because of a $10 overdraft!

 

[redtailgal]

That sucks.

Can you explain to the bank that the storage facility did not charge correctly? We had a company to that to us once, and our bank waived the fees once I explained the situation to them.

 

[Queen Mum]

I tried explaining it to the bank. They said it's my problem. GRRRR! I had a local bank when I was in Washington that was very responsive. Since I have switched to a "National Chain" Wells Fargo, they don't give me the time of day! I tried to talk to the storage company too. They said, they have always sent the charges in on the second and the bank has always just held it till the third to pay... That is true, but that was before when I was with a local bank in Washington State. (I changed banks because I moved to Texas where there were no branches for my favorite local bank.)

 

[redtailgal]

Ug. I was with Wachovia for years....and they were wonderful, even through some very lean times with us. But the switch to Wells Fargo, did me in. Their customer service is non existent so I left.

 

[Queen Mum]

Yep, I am very strongly thinking about switching. But which bank? Hmmm... I like local banks. Much better, more personal service. Well, I got the bills paid. No money left now, so I will wait till next month to decide. Crisis over.

The goats ate all the browse in their little field and they think they are STARVING to death. It does not matter one whit that I take them out to eat and browse the whole area every single day for a couple hours. There are a gajillion weeds all over the place. And they are getting LOTS of hay daily. NO, that doesn't count. And I brush them and love them and take good care of them. The poor starving PIGS!

Oye Vey!