Thank you for all the help you've given me during my move to the country. The house was empty for a while and during that time it filled up with mice. Fortunately my dogs are part rat terrier and that breed was bred to keep rodents off of farms. It's incredible how many mice they catch... the same amount as are caught by the traps I use. Yesterday the traps caught three and the dogs caught at least three, maybe more.

I truly am living through a mouse infestation. I wish they weren't so darned cute. I now see why kids have mice as pets.

I can remember visiting a friend who raised mice. I asked her why she did it. I couldn't believe that she loved mice so much she raised them. Mice can give birth in a matter of weeks and each litter has at least 10 babies. What did she do with all those mice?

She went into her bedroom and came out with an eight foot snake wrapped around her neck. The snake was as big as the large roll of bologna in the meat department.

I never thought I had a fear of snakes, but I have to admit I jumped out of my skin when I saw that snake wrapped around her neck.

The snake started wiggling off her shouldar and soon slithered up the table where the box of mice were. He knocked the box on the floor (something he normally didn't do) and then raced after a mouse. He caught it and swallowed it. I could actually see the bulge of the mouse travel down his throat.

The only thing worse than my fright of seeing this huge snake was waking up the next morning with the snake stretched out in bed with me, his head next to mine. He wasn't supposed to be able to get out of his cage. Needless to say, I always made sure that I had another place to stay when I wnt to Los Angeles to visit my friend.

I remember how many mice that snake ate and I think to myself that the snake would LOVE the place I live in now. If I didn't have the dogs, I would invite my friend to bring her snake and come visit. I fear the snake would eat the dogs.

I think this bill is the last of the bills for this month. I sure hope so. This means I am actually catching up. The only bill that remains outrageous is the electric bill and that's because I never received the bills for the months that my painter and his girlfriend were at the house getting it ready to move in to.

I assumed the landlady was still paying the bills, and then the man arrived to turn off the electricity and he handed me the bill.

Only $25.00 more dollars and this one will be paid.

Thank you!!