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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 9:01 AM
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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You'd be great to have around when I need help. What I consider the good stuff always seems to be on the top shelf. Cereal, ice cream. Very annoying.
I don't fit in a purse though and you've already got too much to carry around with you.
Back in the day, I remember seeing milk cartons all over the place in the grocery stores so people could get a little extra height to grab things they couldn't reach. I'm sure that's something that OSHA here and whatever the Canadian equivalent took out of the stores because a few people fell off of them and sued the stores or something.
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If I'm not careful, I get employees reprimanding me for climbing up shelving to get stuff that's too high from time to time. I get it. It's their job to do just that. But any time I've done work in retail I've always been climbing shelving to do my job better and getting yelled at by managers for that too.
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Back pack and that is true.
Hehe... I guess I just assumed.
No offense intended. I don't leave home without my small tool bag these days and I call it my man-purse.
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I don't remember anything like that when I was a kid but back then it was easier to find a clerk to get something down for you. Or going farther back. My dad could easily reach stuff for my mum off the high shelves.
I have done the climbing up shelves to reach things but that day I didn't feel like it so I got the mop.
Oh. We had milk crates in our stores.
I actually got some from my Grandma's basement in my garage now. They're so much easier to grab than one of my ladders when all I need is a foot or so extra reach.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 9:06 AM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm glad the mouse problem doesn't seem to be a big issue at your grandmother's. Having you as some company around her house, I am sure she appreciates more than she can say. That's the important thing. Treasure this time you have with both your aunt and grandmother. You are very fortunate to have these people.
Oh, your aunt is going to so love you for all of this.
I'm sure your grandmother will enjoy that. Those old pictures might just kick up some memories and names. Have a pen handy to write on the backs, who, where and a year if possible.
They will love it when they see it then.
Oh... It WAS a problem in the basement. Not as bad as the nastiness under/behind my stove and dishwasher bad, but worse than any of the rest of my house got bad. I'm still not done either. I have a fruit cellar to clear out that is just as bad as the closet was. The upstairs seems good so far, but there are some closets up there filled with junk that I'm worried about. The fact that nobody has ever seen a mouse upstairs makes me feel a little better, but I already know they were at least doing some minor activity in the porch closet. I'm just hoping they got rid of them before they made a big mess upstairs.
Unfortunately, after decades of cats owning that house, using your sense of smell outside of the basement isn't helping at all here. That house ALWAYS smells funny, with or without mice.
I'm really looking forward to doing that with my Grandma. I hope she can remember at least some of the names. I get the feeling that my aunt doesn't want any of the pictures that weren't of her and her brothers, so I'll probably inherit those old-timey ones and I'd like to know more about them.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 9:23 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
You'd be great to have around when I need help. What I consider the good stuff always seems to be on the top shelf. Cereal, ice cream. Very annoying.
I don't fit in a purse though and you've already got too much to carry around with you.
Back in the day, I remember seeing milk cartons all over the place in the grocery stores so people could get a little extra height to grab things they couldn't reach. I'm sure that's something that OSHA here and whatever the Canadian equivalent took out of the stores because a few people fell off of them and sued the stores or something.
:(
If I'm not careful, I get employees reprimanding me for climbing up shelving to get stuff that's too high from time to time. I get it. It's their job to do just that. But any time I've done work in retail I've always been climbing shelving to do my job better and getting yelled at by managers for that too.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
Back pack and that is true.
Hehe... I guess I just assumed.
No offense intended. I don't leave home without my small tool bag these days and I call it my man-purse.Quote:
I don't remember anything like that when I was a kid but back then it was easier to find a clerk to get something down for you. Or going farther back. My dad could easily reach stuff for my mum off the high shelves.
I have done the climbing up shelves to reach things but that day I didn't feel like it so I got the mop.
Oh. We had milk crates in our stores.
I actually got some from my Grandma's basement in my garage now. They're so much easier to grab than one of my ladders when all I need is a foot or so extra reach.
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No worries. I am old enough that in theory I should be carrying a purse but I don't like them. And I can get more in a backpack.
Don't worry about it. I just don't remember milk crates being left like that up here in BC. Doesn't mean that maybe stores in Eastern Canada didn't do that. As for my dad when he would go with her grocery shopping, he was taller than her. So, she would just ask him to reach things down.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 9:30 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm glad the mouse problem doesn't seem to be a big issue at your grandmother's. Having you as some company around her house, I am sure she appreciates more than she can say. That's the important thing. Treasure this time you have with both your aunt and grandmother. You are very fortunate to have these people.
Oh, your aunt is going to so love you for all of this.
I'm sure your grandmother will enjoy that. Those old pictures might just kick up some memories and names. Have a pen handy to write on the backs, who, where and a year if possible.
They will love it when they see it then.
Oh... It WAS a problem in the basement. Not as bad as the nastiness under/behind my stove and dishwasher bad, but worse than any of the rest of my house got bad. I'm still not done either. I have a fruit cellar to clear out that is just as bad as the closet was. The upstairs seems good so far, but there are some closets up there filled with junk that I'm worried about. The fact that nobody has ever seen a mouse upstairs makes me feel a little better, but I already know they were at least doing some minor activity in the porch closet. I'm just hoping they got rid of them before they made a big mess upstairs.
Unfortunately, after decades of cats owning that house, using your sense of smell outside of the basement isn't helping at all here. That house ALWAYS smells funny, with or without mice.
I'm really looking forward to doing that with my Grandma. I hope she can remember at least some of the names. I get the feeling that my aunt doesn't want any of the pictures that weren't of her and her brothers, so I'll probably inherit those old-timey ones and I'd like to know more about them.
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Sorry, I must have misunderstood what you typed. Reading this I get it now. I wish you good luck then.
Well, maybe doing more clearing out and airing out might get rid of the cat smell.
I hope she can. Sometimes photographs can help. They can take a person back to that time and place.
I have old photographs from my dad's side that I know most of the people in them and some have written on them the year and the people. Unfortunately the old photographs I have from my mom's side. Not so much with the writing and years.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 6:54 PM
Quote:So, since I know mice can squeeze in thru incredibly tiny gaps ... we had a wee little field mouse in our house once, and I check our perimeter every now and again to see if we're buttoned up, so I hae NO idea how it got in! ... do you have any idea where the mice might have come through?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm glad the mouse problem doesn't seem to be a big issue at your grandmother's. Having you as some company around her house, I am sure she appreciates more than she can say. That's the important thing. Treasure this time you have with both your aunt and grandmother. You are very fortunate to have these people.
Oh, your aunt is going to so love you for all of this.
I'm sure your grandmother will enjoy that. Those old pictures might just kick up some memories and names. Have a pen handy to write on the backs, who, where and a year if possible.
They will love it when they see it then.
Oh... It WAS a problem in the basement. Not as bad as the nastiness under/behind my stove and dishwasher bad, but worse than any of the rest of my house got bad. I'm still not done either. I have a fruit cellar to clear out that is just as bad as the closet was. The upstairs seems good so far, but there are some closets up there filled with junk that I'm worried about. The fact that nobody has ever seen a mouse upstairs makes me feel a little better, but I already know they were at least doing some minor activity in the porch closet. I'm just hoping they got rid of them before they made a big mess upstairs.
Unfortunately, after decades of cats owning that house, using your sense of smell outside of the basement isn't helping at all here. That house ALWAYS smells funny, with or without mice.
I'm really looking forward to doing that with my Grandma. I hope she can remember at least some of the names. I get the feeling that my aunt doesn't want any of the pictures that weren't of her and her brothers, so I'll probably inherit those old-timey ones and I'd like to know more about them.
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Also, in your experience ... do they eventually go away if they don't find food? BC I'm under the impression that there's nothing really edible where you're cleaning. Or do they just come in for the warmth in winter? How old do (did) the mouse evidence look? I guess what I'm really wondering is - do you think this might be an ongoing problem? Or maybe jut an occasional one?
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:00 PM
If you're going to write on the backs of photos, it might be better to write with pencil instead of ink or marker. Modern inks are made with solvent, and markers with a LOT of solvent, and I worry that they might bleed thru the photos.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16901668/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:15 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, since I know mice can squeeze in thru incredibly tiny gaps ... we had a wee little field mouse in our house once, and I check our perimeter every now and again to see if we're buttoned up, so I hae NO idea how it got in! ... do you have any idea where the mice might have come through?
I know EXACTLY where they came in. Or to be more accurate, I know the easiest place they got in. The basement door is one of those doors that are lower than the ground level and you have to go down six or seven steps to get to it (Oh... how nice it would be to not live on a flood plane).
The metal sweep on the bottom of the wood storm door has rusted and broken off. Behind that, the bottom of that door was obviously gnawed at by mice in the middle to get in. The wooden door on the inside never even had a sweep.
After I get more cleaning done, fixing this issue is on my list along with replacing that light above the washer/dryer and installing a new faucet in the kitchen sink.
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Also, in your experience ... do they eventually go away if they don't find food? BC I'm under the impression that there's nothing really edible where you're cleaning. Or do they just come in for the warmth in winter? How old do (did) the mouse evidence look? I guess what I'm really wondering is - do you think this might be an ongoing problem? Or maybe jut an occasional one?
I have some experience, but I'm not expert, so I couldn't say. My house always had food lying around. I wasn't exactly Mr. Clean or worried about regularly cleaning up after eating back when the house looked so bad all the cleaning in the world still wouldn't make it look good. (Hoarder's Curse).
I haven't seen any food in the basement yet, although it was obvious that there was plenty of nesting material for them because a lot of the boxes they got into had a lot of shredded stuff in side of it along with all the poop.
My aunt is real good about washing dishes right away. My grandma, not so much. But I'd like to think that even with her short term memory problems she'd remember if she saw a mouse come up and nibble on her leftovers. Half the time if my aunt and I are talking about the mice activity and she overhears us it's like brand new news to her.
My aunt did say that upstairs either in the back porch or in the old bedroom off the kitchen that she found a bag of potatoes or something that had been gnawed into and eaten. It is very possible that I'll find more food they've been snacking on up there. Maybe they just went into those two back rooms and got their treats and lived downstairs. It wouldn't be surprising to me if I find some old food up in there that was forgotten. My aunt keeps the fridge clean and reasonably stacked. I remember when I was living there and back when I was a kid my grandma's fridge was always packed so full that you could barely close it. I don't recall ever finding anything gross in there, but then again I never dug too deep either. When I did de-hoard her cabinets and organize them, I found 8 containers of the same spice, with some of them being older than I was.
I don't know how to age mice pee and poop. None of it was wet, so it wasn't brand new, but beyond that who knows how old? The traps that are out haven't been triggered, so there aren't any mice in there currently. Mice are extremely stupid. You could have 5 dead mice in traps right next to one that hasn't gone off yet and the mouse will walk right up to that peanut butter and get itself killed. They can't resist it.
Once everything is clean I'll fix that door and put traps all over the place in spots that nobody will accidentally step on them.
I think it WAS an ongoing problem, and it was ongoing for a lot more than my aunt thought it was. Possibly as long as it's been since the last cat died. I dont' know how long it takes to build up the kind of activit
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:17 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If you're going to write on the backs of photos, it might be better to write with pencil instead of ink or marker. Modern inks are made with solvent, and markers with a LOT of solvent, and I worry that they might bleed thru the photos.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16901668/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Thanks for the tip.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:24 PM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sorry, I must have misunderstood what you typed. Reading this I get it now. I wish you good luck then.
Well, maybe doing more clearing out and airing out might get rid of the cat smell.
I hope she can. Sometimes photographs can help. They can take a person back to that time and place.
I have old photographs from my dad's side that I know most of the people in them and some have written on them the year and the people. Unfortunately the old photographs I have from my mom's side. Not so much with the writing and years.
I think it will all work out. I just need more time over there. I was planning on going back over this week, but I really need to be getting some stuff done over here like I'm doing right now. Also, I think my aunt is a little overwhelmed with how much crap is now out in the garage that she has to worry about salting out with the trash. she keeps talking about renting a dumpster and that is completely unnecessary. I keep telling her that she asks me if we can clear the house out by the end of summer anyhow, so just keep throwing it out bit by bit while I'm clearing things out and it should all be out by then. Her city is real good about trash pickup and they took about a dozen bags last week on top of the cans. Once the bags are out, then she can put one big or a few small pieces of furniture out with the trash too. I told her that I can make trips around garbage day to do more dehoarding so I can help her with the heavy stuff, or my uncle lives right in the neighborhood and would be happy to help her with that.
Something my grandma said the other day makes me think that its possible we won't be able to name a lot of those old time photographs. It's possible that the entire lot of them were from her first husband's family. He'd be my grandfather by blood, but they split because he chose booze over a family and he died a long time before I was born. My actual grandpa died when I was 5 and they had been married around 25-30 years.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 11:15 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If you're going to write on the backs of photos, it might be better to write with pencil instead of ink or marker. Modern inks are made with solvent, and markers with a LOT of solvent, and I worry that they might bleed thru the photos.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16901668/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
The two really old photographs that I have do have writing on the back but they are in frames now so I can protect them. One is from 1913 and my dad is a child in it, and the other one is from around 1899. It was taken before my grandfather left Scotland to come to Canada. It's of him and his favourite sister.
But I have another one from around the same time period of 1899 that maybe I should put into a frame as well. My grandfather's cousin and another old one from my mom's family. There is nothing on the back and I know nothing about the photograph but I am guessing it is tintype as it is quite heavy.
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