Mar 07 2007
Hunter Kitty
A month or so ago, I wandered downstairs on my way to work and heard the sounds of an overly active cat in the kitchen. Peering around the corner, I was mildly amused (once I got over the “gak, we just bought a house with mice!” gut reaction) to see one of the cats trying desperately to play with a little mouse that eventually disappeared into the base of one of our cabinets. Bah. That was the last we actually saw of it, I think, and my assumption was that Escher (and the others) managed through their constant vigils in the kitchen to drive the little bugger outside where it belongs. Turns out I was wrong.
Growing up, we had a family cat who, when on our summer vacations in a very wooded area, would hunt and bring back dead (and mangled) rodents and display them proudly by our back door for us to praise. Not so much with the Escher - “Hunter” really isn’t the best way to describe his attitude of “oh, look, a mouse! Here Mouse, don’t you want to play? *poke*poke*chase*chase* Whussamatta, Mousie? *poke* No move? *poke* Bored now…” - he’s not after the hunt so much as he is looking for a new playmate. Unfortunately, it appears that this particular playmate was a little too close to his food dish for comfort. Yuck. Thankfully we were present and heard the scrabbling in the kitchen and were quickly able to dispose of the evidence. Time to get a couple traps, I guess, to be on the safe side.
In other news, this past weekend marked what we expect to be our last trip ever to the MA house. w00t! We’d managed to put all the stuff destined for the dump into the garage and shed and hired a guy to dispose of it for us which saved a great deal of time on our end; all that remained, really, was Hubby’s old motorcycle, some yard equipment, and an office desk & chair - all of which managed to fit into a Uhaul quite nicely. We narrowly avoided disaster getting the bike off the truck once back in Maine (damn, those things are heavy), but all told, this whole selling-the-house/moving process has been much less painful than I had ever hoped. We’re still on schedule to close next week, which we’re going to do through our lawyer so we won’t have to make yet another trek down there (wanting to save up vacation days, as a nephew is soon to be arriving, and we’ve got a North Carolina mini-vacation coming up in April). Will be nice to have one less major thing to worry about so we can focus more on the new house (and all the unpacking I still haven’t done!). 
