We finally got a break in the rain with even steamier, hot days. The humidity has been awful. I spend the afternoon spread out on my bed with a window fan at my feet and a ceiling fan above me but it is still so hot I am in my bathing suit. I think of all sorts of things to write in my blogs but don't have the energy to get up and tackle it. So I pop in a movie and lay there and drift off to sleep. I am still here just don't have the energy to sit up much these days LOL.
When things cool down at night I cook, clean and spend every morning giving dogs baths and spraying the house down again and again. I am using every remedy possible but the fleas keep multiplying. Bleach in the bath water for all of us, bleach water sprayed on the ground all around the trailer and areas the dogs go in, lots of garlic in our food, washing the dogs down in pinesol, and on and on. Still we are all eat up with them.
I don't know what is going on. Every year there has been a small outbreak at the beginning of spring turning into summer. However an increase of garlic in our food usually nips it in the bud within a week or so. This bout has gone on for about 6 weeks.
Bo stopped eating for a week and was turning into skin and bone. A dog trainer friend told me to pour raw eggs down his throat. I did that morning and night for about 4 days and he started eating again. I increased his food a little each day for another 3 or 4 days and now he is almost back to normal. However I am still giving him a couple of raw eggs with garlic powder stirred in first then he gets his dry food. He loves the eggs and is lapping them up.
The mouse problem is down inside. I am still catching about 5 or 6 per week but that is not much compared to before. At the same time they are everywhere in the yard and garden. I have poured the fox/bobcat urine and borax all over the yard but they are everywhere out there. If I get up early in the morning I can stand on the deck and watch them running everywhere. When I go out to water the garden in the evening, they dash out from in between the plants.
I am also in the process of getting rid of lots of excess "junk". I am going through my kitchen cabinets and dumping those piles of extra lids, pots, pitchers and other junk I really have no use for. Every cabinet is covered in mouse poop so it is really a mess. I also found two more holes chewed into the walls inside the cabinets.
Actually this is what made me decide I had way too much stuff. I refused to use anything out of the cabinets. I have been using the same two pots and handful of silverware for months. I just wash it off and put it all in the fridge - the one place I know the little buggers can't get. I have two insulated mugs that I trade out each time I go for water or tea. Same with my iced tea pitchers. I have two and keep them in the fridge. When one gets half empty I make another gallon and put it in the back. Yes, I drink about a gallon of tea, a gallon of water and one or two sodas each day in this heat.
Well it is 1am and has finally cooled down. I am riding the ETHRA (East TN Human Resources Assistance) van tomorrow for the first time. It costs $3 to town and $3 home. No more having to sit around for 2 or 3 months waiting on people to take me to town to get groceries or losing my food stamps because I can't make the appointments. I will tell you all about it next time. Right now I need to get everything packed up and ready for the ride tomorrow. They are picking me up at 9am so I need to get to bed soon.
NiteNite
Linda B:)
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