Amy's Blog

So we definitely have mice in the house. This morning Carolyn called me, asking me to bring Pao up to try to help flush out a mouse she thought was in her cupboard. She said she heard scurrying and “chewing” noises coming from in there. I brought Pao up, and we emptied out the cupboard, but could not find any mice, although we did see evidence they had been there (droppings, and chewed up bits of cracker crumbs and things). I left Pao up there for a while but she never did find any. Apparantly Pixel (downstairs cat) has caught yet another mouse though. Griffyn (upstairs cat) is kind of hopeless. He is a cat who meows at the birds in the tree, asking them nicely to come down, and no he doesn’t have much luck hunting that way. Pao and Pixel both seem to be good at the catching of mice, and I think Phaibun would probably be good at it too because he’s very quick and stealthy.

We bought some neons for our aquarium today – a little school of 6. We miss Sammy though, he was a really cool fish. Probably not right for our tank anyway, considering how big bala sharks can grow, but even so, I really liked him a lot.

Not much else to report. Today was a pretty lazy day. I had physio, I might be being discharged soon so that’s good news,  my knee is doing quite well and I’m almost at the point where I can start an exercise program on my own at the rec center and not need to go to physio anymore. I haven’t been biking much because the weather has been pretty lousy, but I have been out a few times and I think it’s helping to strengthen my knee up. I’ve been playing cello a little bit almost every day and enjoying that too. I have tomorrow off too so I might do some more house cleaning then. I want to do a really thorough vacuum (like move the furniture, and go all along the baseboards etc) to really try to clear out any remnants of fleas, now that we have the animals all treated at once and with decent stuff. Ciaran seems to be scratching less and actually really seems to like me rubbing the lotion into her tummy. I think it feels soothing to her skin because normally I don’t think she’d like something cold and slimy on her! I am starting to believe in home remedies, at least in some cases. Obviously there are some things that require actual medicine. Another example of home remedies is the tea I have been drinking regularly, which seems to be greatly *greatly* helping my stomach. The fennel tea in particular is really good if I start feeling crampy in my bowel. I’ve also got a really nice tea from aronia berries that Tyler found for me. Plus a whole cupboard full of different teas that I have been delving into (because I always get given tea, or buy it from time to time if I see something that looks really good, but rarely actually DRINK the stuff.. up until lately anyway).