Hello one and all! What a crazy long, busy and stressful week this has been. Glad that were coming up on a weekend so that perhaps I can get a couple days of rest, at least from work. Today thus far is the most relaxed it’s been for me since about last Wednesday. I feel like I have been burning the candle at both ends going from one extreme to another.
I have the windows in the house open this morning again, the odor from the mice was starting to build up again overnight. There is tone in the odor that when I smell it all I want to do is gag. It kind of smells like ammonia. Funny thing is mice don’t like the smell of ammonia. I wonder if it drove them out? I can only hope. I learned last night in a YouTube video that mice also don’t have bladders. They are constantly peeing. Every where you see droppings there is urine that goes with it. That kind of explains why things smell so bad. Mice are a horrible problem to have and I kind of feel like this is insurmountable and what is going to bring me to my breaking point. I know the true cure for the smell is to start knocking out walls and ripping out insulation. That’s big money and I don’t have that. I was telling a colleague this morning I can’t wait for Winter the odor will be gone by then that’s when I should call and ask for an as is offer – cut my losses and move. Hey it sounds plausible to me. I honestly don’t want to move in the Winter and I really am not physically or emotionally ready to move just yet but each day kind of brings me a bit closer to that point. Right now I just want this odor gone it’s the absolute worst and makes just being here difficult. Oddly enough Gator doesn’t seem to mind. She loves to go into my room with the window open, the fan on and the sun shining in the window and sack out. She falls into a deep slumber and that is the only positive thing about this whole odor thing.
I have been planning since last year to wash the house. I’ve got one of those bottles you hook up to a garden hose and spray. Let it sit for a bit and then come back and rinse off. It’s bleach based and I did one side of the house in the past two years (they kind of blend together) and it helped knock the odor down but as I recall it didn’t eliminate it. I bought this stuff because the attic vent which I call a dormer in the front of the house is filthy and has been for a while. I feel this will fix that. As well I thought about spraying down the concrete driveway to help get rid of all of the crud that has built up on that over the years. Nothing looks better than clean concrete, at least to me. I lack motivation and energy which is why I have had this chemical sitting for a year. I should really use it if not this weekend then soon. Kind of depends on what time I wake up tomorrow, how I feel and what the weather is like. I may just give in and wash the place I know for sure the mice don’t like the smell of bleach.
Hope that you have a great weekend. I’ve got nothing much else to write about. Take care.
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