Sunday, November 14, 2010

Continuing saga of suckage...

So, we sealed the holes, cleaned up the rat poop/pee and put out poison, which did get eaten, and we have not seen any more rat(s), however, the rat(s) got into the stove and made a cozy home out of the stove insulation.  We discovered this yesterday after placing pecan pies in the stove (made from our own pecan tree) and then the whole house began to reek of rat pee.  This makes cat pee smell like flowers.  It's so god awful I had to step outside a few times just to breath.

I've done some looking on the internet and it looks like our practically new stove is toast.  Apparently you can't ever get that smell out.  It seems to me all that would need to happen is replacing the insulation and cleaning the surfaces but apparently that's not good enough.  I put in some calls to appliance repair shops to see if this is possible --but I don't have much hope.  I think we'll have to...sigh...buy a new stove.  Because of pee.

Now if only the car engine could go out...or maybe we could have a small kitchen fire?  How about some flooding.

In other news, our kids are awesome and I love them.  Eleanor is a standing up and sitting down genious and loves to walk across rooms with her push toys.  She shakes her head "no" now and does silly faces and waves and claps and is just so sweet.  She loves to rest her little head on our shoulders and laps.

Henry has been a trouper these last few weeks of Ho-Vo hardship.  He did not go to school last week because of illness (thank god for sick leave) and has really had very little fun lately.  But he's doing fine now and will be back with his friends tomorrow.

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