#WeekendCoffeeShare – Rain Sweet Rain

Published on by Yinglan

Good morning! Welcome to #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by Natalie of Natalie the Explorer, please still feel free to come on in and have a drink and a chat.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you it rained this week. It actually rained and not that annoying 5-minute spotty dirtied-up the car kind of rain. No… It actually rained for over 2 hours, forming puddles on the ground and cooling temperatures a good 10-degree-Fahrenheit kind of rain. Honestly, the slight bump in humidity felt nice despite being only at 30%. I think late May was the last good rainstorm around here.

I think more rain is coming this weekend but it’s hard to say. I welcome the rain though I can’t say I welcome the wind, which always seems to accompany the rain.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you something horrible happened this week and that something also made me angry. For some reason, construction crew came and dug a hole in the sidewalk this week. Were they replacing pipes or cables beneath the pavement? I don’t know. They never informed me. What made me angry was when they drove an excavator over my rose bush.

“How can they do that to my roses?”

“The sidewalk is city property.” My mom said. Which side is she on? How can she defend the city? They damaged the rose bush – the bush she planted but ended up being me who’s taking care of it.

I went out the next day to assess the damage, much of the branches broke when the excavator ran it over. I ended up giving it a haircut – sort of like a gum in hair situation (I’m sure you’ve seen it in movies) – removing the broken branches while trying to even out the bush.

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If we were having coffee, I would tell you the mouse has returned. I spent last weekend and much of the week cleaning the garden, giving the little critter one less reason to visit. It’s been coming and going in broad daylight.

It was hiding being the storage box before I pulled it off its pedestal. Beneath the box were pieces of mulch, peanuts left by the birds, dried leaves, and cherry pits. It was its nest. With a broom and dust pan, I cleaned out the area before tossing a bag of mouse repellent and moving the box back where it belonged.

To be honest, if it was for the disease factor and the fact that it was damaging my garden, I wouldn’t be so concerned. I ended up getting 2 humane catch-and-release mouse traps because I wanted it out of my backyard but I don’t want to deal with another mouse corpse after already dealt with 2 this year. On Thursday morning, after observing it, I found out it’s dug a tunnel between the rocks of the retaining wall, allowing it to travel freely to and from my backyard.

That night, I tried to find out how far it went. I shoved my arm into the hole and it was so deep that I could stick my forearm into the hole. Immediately, I shoved rocks into the hole, barricading it, before finish the barricade with mulch and a bag of mouse repellent. Then I went along the retaining wall, testing and filling each hole. I’m sure the little creature will be back in the matter of time but at least I can rest easy for the time being.

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Finally, if we were having coffee, I would tell you my job interview this week was a total disaster but it felt good to get it over with. At least now I can move on. To be honest, I have lost hope of being hired for the position, after all, I’m not the only applicant and when it comes to competition, I’m just not the kind of person that will come out a winner. So I might as well get my hopes up.

I appreciate you stopping by. Until next we chat. 🙂

23 thoughts on “#WeekendCoffeeShare – Rain Sweet Rain”

  2. Sorry about the rose bush. I’m still holding out hope for the job. Best not to encourage a mouse. My sisters once thought they were cute and the next thing there were babies and it became a huge thing.
    The garden around the house I now live in could harbour snakes the grass is so long. The wash line is strung across the wild long grass and so I try to not use that. The cat caught a mouse the other day. I missed the corpse in the bathroom, but I now scan every footstep I take in case I stand on something. Happy days! Ha Ha

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    1. Ewww! I had to dispose two corpses of dead mice this year already and I can’t get the picture out of my head nor do I want to see another one.
      Snake, eek! I used to think I don’t fear critters and snakes but after this year, I now fear all wildlife.

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    1. I’m taking it as a learning experience. Job interviews aren’t the easiest thing in the world even if the interviewers are not strangers to the interviewee.

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  7. The photo of the woman in the rain expresses the love of welcoming the rain that you are describing! Lovely.

    Last year, after a week watching three mice/rats at 5 a.m. sneak out from underneath my house, cross the sidewalk that leads to my front porch where I drink my morning coffee, to have their sip of water on the morning dew grass. They were rather punctual critters, I thought. Apparently they were newly nesting. I was annoyed. I got an idea. So one night before, I decided to sprinkle McCormick Ground Clove on the sidewalk where they would cross. I did my usual sitting outside sipping my coffee and I watched all three mice/rats cross the sidewalk, walking over the sprinkled ground clove, sip some morning dew water, then go back underneath my house to their nest. Well, they did not like that! The next morning and thereafter, no more mice/rats crossing over my sidewalk. I never had to do anything else.

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  9. As you said, you already have a job. You really don’t need this new one. What were they going after? I have no idea. If you get this one, fine. If you don’t get this one, fine. Enjoy your garden and take care of your rose bush!

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