Ok, so my solution to the pineapple cans may not have been the best solution. I just went ahead and bought him a dozen cans of pineapple. These are chunks by the way, which are on sale and have been, at Food Max. Now when I look anywhere I either see an empty can or a lid. On the shelf in the pantry, empties. On the back lawn, empties. Behind the ac units, many empties. In the pile of leaves, empties and lids. I am kind of afraid to look on the roof, but I know what I will find if I look under the deck.
Aug 16 - 22
So, besides the fact I got sued this week by someone who claims their chair collapsed underneath them (something cut the cord to the surveillance camera the morning before she fell), besides the fact that I had to close Taylors again because my manager’s roommate tested positive for COVID (my manager tested negative), and besides the fact that the SMUD transformer went bad in front of Country Waffles which caused us to lose power and we had to throw everything in the refrigerators away, I had kind of a boring week. What about you?
Folks we need to start taking this Delta variant seriously. It is affecting young people like never before and it is so much more transmissible. Please wear your mask into the restaurant until you are seated. If you can, please ask to be seated outside. I am afraid unless everyone gets vaccinated soon and and people stop wearing masks this could blow up in our face.
Thank you.
Aug 9 - 15
I think the pet rattlesnake was a success. The chickens were getting tired of the rats out in the chicken coop and stopped laying eggs, or at least stopped laying eggs there. With the rattle snake I got more eggs than I had gotten in a year. Unfortunately, the snake moved on and chickens stopped laying eggs again.
We did finally catch the rat inside. He or she had been running on the kitchen counter and had gotten into the bread box. So my exterminator guy put bread on the trap and it worked. We are now rat-less inside and rattlesnake-less outside. Kind of a dull world.
I want to thank everyone who came to the spaghetti feed to help wildfire victims. With your help we raised $5000. Channel 3 and Channel 40 came out and did a story on it as well.
Thanks again.
Through COVID, Fires, Smoke and Drought, we must stick together.
Aug 2 - 8
Everyone has tried to help me catch my pet rat to no avail. I tried the electronic zapper, given to me by Kathy (thank you) with no luck. Pest control guy told me to put peanut butter on a trap but don’t set it for 2 days and then set it on the third, with no luck. The drums didn’t seem to help (it must be deaf). So my attention is now on my new pet that just might eat the rat pet.
So my daughter calls me over to tell me there is a large snake coiled up behind the door where I store the chicken feed. A rattlesnake is usually very aggressive and this snake was very tame. So I assumed it was a gopher snake (they all look alike). So I go out there 5 more times and this snake doesn’t move, but does keep sticking it’s tongue out. So this morning I go out to clean up the chicken coop and that makes him or her mad. It stands up to attack me, which upset me since I thought we were now friends, and there is the rattle. Ok, I think to myself, now my rat problem in the chicken coop is taken care of and then I bring him into the house and viola’.
Oh, and I just took my son to the store and had him get as much pineapple as he wanted. This ends the unsuccessful scientific experiment.