26 April 2010

Easy 8 ½ hour trip up from Virginia, helped, in part, by hitting 38 green stoplights on US 206 (okay, so some of them were a pale yellow…). Steady rain showers until reaching Vermont… where the sun came out. Hopefully a good omen. Delores started right up, as did the Ranger. No sign of mice in the “usual” utensil drawer. Just as I was feeling smug about putting a bunch of cat hair in the void behind those drawers last trip (Alverta’s idea), I opened the door below the bathroom sink to retrieve the Kleenex cleverly stored there so the mice wouldn’t use it for nesting material, and found that the mice are way more clever than I am. In a further fit of cleverness, rammed a wood splinter under a fingernail while unloading forming materials from the car. Fortunately, after a plentiful dose of anesthetic (Fat Bastard Chardonnay), was able to extract the sucker... and also feel much better about the mice situation.