And the Score is....

   We live in the country...little house in the little woods,huh?...and every fall we get the annual invasion of field mice.  When I was growing up I could hear them crawling up the beams inside the walls in my bedroom at night on their way to and from the attic/cellar.  Then came the discovery of  D-Con and that stopped...or at least, slowed down.  This year the little mickeys are bolder than ever and aren't bothering with staying inside the walls.  So far this week...THIS WEEK...I've picked up 5 dead or dying mice...3 in the TV room and 2 in the kitchen.  I've added D-con to new places (behind the dryer, under the refrigerator) and while the sounds from inside the walls have stopped, the mice are still here.  The other day I was reading the newspaper while Fanny snoozed on a chair.  She growled and I put down the paper and looked up.  She was in a stare down with a mouse who was between us on the floor.   I said...to the mouse...where did you come from...and went into the kitchen for an empty coffee can...while Fanny jumped over the mouse and ran and hid under the bed.  After scooping up the mouse...who was alive enough to wiggle a little...and going outside to dump it near the wood shed...I lured the dog out from under the bed with a dog treat and words of praise for confronting the mouse.  (The next mouse she cornered herself but let me pick it up...with the coffee can.)  This morning's mouse was dead by the dog's dish.  Whether it died there or Fanny put it there...?  Anyway, the score is now Mice 0 Me 5 (I'm taking credit for the 2 that may be Fanny's discovery.)  Almost time to buy more D-con.
   Last week Jeff told his PT guy enough was enough.  The pain from the exercises were getting unbearable and nothing was helping.  He couldn't sleep or eat!   And while a hot bath probably would have helped, Jeff was afraid if he got into the tub...his is an big old claw-foot job...he wouldn't be able to get out.  Now he's trying to get back to a normal routine but that will take some time.   He went grocery shopping

and got a bone-in ham that he cut it up and we froze.  Jeff's going to use the bone and make split-pea soup...his is the best! 
   In the meantime, I'm sitting by
the wood stove, reading a little,
watching TV s little and knitting a little.  Here are  2 Ladies Flower Hat and Mitten sets ready to go to the

shop.  Instead of a fabric bow, these hats have knitted leaves.  The sets are acrylic and the mittens are done on a US4 making them very dense and warm...and a little difficult to make.  My index fingers don't like getting stuck with the needle points... occupational hazards!