Random 5 for October 30 – Mice, fall, baseball, ads, eyes

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Oh no, not again – There is a mouse in the house. The cats found it in the basement. Because of all the stuff we have down there, I was unsuccessful so far in capturing the little guy. We’re going to try a kind mousetrap so we can rehome outside where he belongs. I can’t let him stay too long or I’ll name him and buy him his own food dish.

Moving on – This morning I was at a streetlight when the nearby gingko tree let loose. It was a blizzard of yellow fan shaped leaves covering my car. It was beautiful but another reminder that in a week or so, the trees will be bare until the end of April.

Bliss! – The local big city baseball team is in the World Series. The beloved husband, a huge baseball fan, is watching it. I am watching other stuff. I found a station playing NCIS continuously. I was enjoying it when I realized – no political commercials! Yay! I was very grateful to see car, drug and insurance ads! Normally I stream something without ads but this suited me. The bonus was that I didn’t remember any of the old NCIS shows I watched.

Speaking of the World Series – Usually in my little world I not aware of who is playing. With a local team in it, that would be hard to do. Banners everywhere. Even the old guy up the street put a flag in front of his home.

More eye stuff – I have started another treatment for severe dry eye. I had the first on Friday. So far, so good. There are three more to go. Hopefully there will be more progress.

So how was your week?

 

63 thoughts on “Random 5 for October 30 – Mice, fall, baseball, ads, eyes”

  1. I’d be upset knowing I co-exist with a mouse. It was bad enough about a month ago that every morning I woke up, walked down the hall and turn on the hall, bathroom and kitchen lights. There was a centipede in the bathroom. Most times I turned on the water and drowned it … sometimes it was able to scale the tub side to evade the water, but I took to walking into the bathroom, shoe in hand. It stopped and not sure why – I have a Dixie cup over the bathtub drain when not in use and at the bathroom sink overnight. I hope the Phillies win – the Astros cheated before and likely will again. Our Detroit Tigers’ manager is a former Astros coach.

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      • Centipedes run faster than me – all those legs. It’s not fair! I’ve not encountered a mouse in the house yet – hope I don’t. Not face-to-face anyway. The kitchen light fixture broke about ten years ago and I had the handyman take it down so I could get it repaired. The fixture is about 40 years old, but is a country swag lamp for the country kitchen and I like it. When he took it down, he left a hole in the ceiling right over my head – my laptop is on the kitchen table. He said “looks like there were mousies right over your head – I see old mouse droppings.” I asked him to cover the hole and he said he had nothing to cover it with. I hunted around, put cardboard up there, taped it in about 20 ways so it didn’t fall down and I must’ve glanced up at it 50 times a day ’til he brought the fixture back.

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  2. I’m not too interested in the World Series but my household is! I asked my husband and sports loving granddaughter who they were rooting for, and it was definitely your team. It is fun when it is the local team, I do understand! And Kate, you’re a saint if you’re interested in “re-homing” the mouse. In theory I am so compassionate to all living things. I will pick up a spider or even a cockroach and put them outdoors. BUT…mice is where I just ask someone else to handle it and please don’t give me any details. Again, you have me beat on animal compassion!

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  4. Can you say more about what’s involved in your dry eye treatment? I go through Theratears (without the preservative prescribed by dr because I have IOLs) like water. If there’s something else out there…

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    • There are actually a lot of treatments. The first one I had helped to heal the inflammation on my cornea. This one is OptiLight which is an IPL treatment on the lids and underneath specifically to get the glands to start flowing. It’s 4 treatments and the last one is followed by Lipiflow and a manual gland express. My tears are often too thin and it’s painful. They can also create autologous bloom serum drops out of your own blood. I knew someone who went that route (with very bad dry eye) and she swore by it. I never tried it. Heat treatments always seem to help me at least for a while so I’m hopeful.

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  5. The trees were at their peak last week when we were in Delaware. So gorgeous! You could see the change in peak versus past peak as we drove home to PA. Still some good color here, but not like what we saw just a little further South. I love Fall…just hate that it means winter is coming. If I didn’t have to pet sit/drive anywhere, winter would be fine.

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  7. Nothing is was magical is a tree choosing to shower you with pretty leaves or blossoms. Our white crepe myrtles do that in the summer – it’s a summer snowfall and so much fun (one grumpy neighbor hates it though)
    Out out little mouse – we are also watching to discourage any “But winter is coming” mouse pleas. The struggle is a horror.
    Happy Halloween

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  8. Yesterday, I was just telling my husband how I wish it wouldn’t get windy in the month of October so we had more time to enjoy the fall colors. Sigh. I used to always follow the home team when they’re in a championship game, whether it be hockey, football, or baseball. It’s so much fun when the city unifies around something instead of being divided for once. I used to be a huge football fan (Da Bears), but I gave up all sports when politics became involved. I get enough of that everywhere else. I just want to be entertained sometimes, the same as you enjoying NCIS without those ads. 👍

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    • Yes! My husband burst my bubble yesterday. I thought election day was Tuesday (I voted by mail a few weeks back so I lose track). It’s the following Tuesday meaning another week of awful, awful political ads. If kids said those kind of things about another child, they’d get disciplined! You can barely read our MUTE button.

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  9. I’m not a fan of baseball (unless if I’m at a game in person), but yea, when everyone around you is hyped up because the local team is in the World Series, it’s pretty certain you’re going to get caught up in a little bit of that hype. My bestie’s hubby and son are diehard Phillies fans (and Eagles fans), so I try to stay on the edge of what’s going on to be nice to them. I am humbled by your kindness is wanting to relocate the mouse – I don’t like things that crawl or slink, so I’d choose the fastest way to get it gone, not the most humane. And yes, the fact that the trees are at their loveliest right now and will be bare branches in a matter of weeks is why I have such a love/hate relationship with the season of autumn!

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    • I have that love/hate too. I love early fall when the leaves are just starting to turn but the weather is mild. We’ve had a rainy fall with more rain coming today and tomorrow. I am lucky as my neighbor’s trees (which I look at all the time) are just beautiful. Not a dud among them.

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  10. I love the colors of the trees right now. I do hate it when they are naked though. I don’t follow baseball but I hope your local team wins. I don’t even know who is in the series right now! Happy Halloween.

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    • Maybe it’s from all the mice at the other house but I don’t stress about them anymore. I do my best to rehome but we’ve had two in the basement — one in the spring and now — and I wasn’t able to catch them. We have too much stuff stored down there and they get under and around things so you can’t get at them. I don’t know what happened to the spring one. Maybe there is a portal to mouse heaven down there.

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  12. You’re a pushover, Kate. I hope you’re able to rehome the mouse before you name him and give him a food dish.

    I have a beautiful ginkgo tree in a big pot in the patio. It’s one of my favorites.It loses its leaves later than most of the other trees. Is it the same where you are?

    Have fun with the World Series. I’m not a baseball fan either, but I’m sure I’d enjoy it if the Mariners made it to the World Series.

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    • The gingkos around here are very large trees. I can’t imagine them in a pot but maybe they stay small. It’s about mid leaf dropping time here. Half and half. Lots of trees still have them but there are bare trees too.

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  13. Hopefully, the mouse has left the house. The trees here are colorful but haven’t started to drop their leaves yet. I have developed dry eye in the last few months. My left eye drives me nuts. I think whatever increase I get in my social security check next year will be needed for cases of eye drops. Okay, that is an exaggeration, it’s only one eye that is a problem.

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    • I’m not kind to some crunchy bugs but most other things I’ll put outside. I had some guests and saw a bug. I picked it up with my bare hand and threw it out the door. The woman was amazed. I was familiar with the bug and knew it didn’t have pinchers or bite.

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    • Yes we did beat your team. I was surprised. Not a baseball fan but I track football (but don’t watch it). Our football team is undefeated. Our soccer team is in the playoffs and the basketball team is doing ok. The city is going nuts. Usually all the teams are in the cellar.

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  17. That ginko tree is incredible. Leaves are fallilng around here like crazy and you cannot see one square inch of grass in front and back yards – fortunately we have a landscaping crew handling blowing all our leaves into the woods….we’re beyond “yard clean up” age at this point I’m afraid! LOL I hope “the mouse in the house” won’t tell the neighborhood mice about the comfortable basement available in the neighborhood.

    Hugs, Pam

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    • A comfortable basement with 4 cats? Not likely! 🙂 My next door neighbor does yard work every day. She is my age. I don’t know where she gets her energy. We have a “guy” who helps out. We moved because we couldn’t do all the work at the last house. A lot less property here.

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  20. I can’t remember the last time I watched a World Series. I grew up a huge baseball fan, but my interest in professional sports has drifted away for some reason. I suspect it’s all the gazillionaire players. Good luck with the eye treatments! – Marty

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    • Some gazillionaire athletes are kind and do good things. Others just buy more yachts and planes. There is something wrong when someone gets rewarded with that kind of money and they didn’t invent a cure for any disease or solve any world problems.

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  24. All the best with the latest dry eye medication. 🤞🏼 The World Series teams were a surprise to me this year in who they each beat to get there. While not particularly a baseball fan, I was pretty chuffed it wasn’t the usual teams for a change. Here’s hoping your local team make their fans very proud. They are off to a great start-let’s hope they can keep it up. And here’s hoping you can humanely evict the basement squatter. Maybe remind him there are tons of beautiful leaves out there from which they can build a more than adequate home.

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