Day 1142 Two blind mice

25th September 2020

A day of mixed fortunes. There is truth in the saying “ Giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

I received my Menards cheque for fifty-seven dollars, my eleven percent discount for purchased I made over two months ago. I was beginning to think the whole thing was as a scam, now I could sit and wonder what to spend it on.

That was until Kelli got into the truck and try to start it. There was no juice in the battery at all, as we hadn’t needed to use it for a couple of days maybe we left a door open. We needed to find the cause, there is nothing like a duff battery going into the cold weather.

I went to see Larry to ask if he could give us a jump start which he kindly did. That is when we discovered that the alternator wasn’t charging, and needed replacing, bloody great!

Kelli called around the auto parts store to see if they had any in stock.

A local store had one, another said it could get one in store by four in the afternoon, as that was the cheapest we plumped for that one.

Whilst we were working on our furniture, Kelli noticed a tiny mouse walking towards her, it was really young as it hadn’t opened its eyes yet. She gathered it up and placed it in a box with some cushion filling to keep it warm.

Then she turned around and there was another one, where were they coming from?

That one joined its brother/sister in the box whilst I started to look for a nest.

I moved just about everything in the garage with no sign of anything.

Kelli was then trying to find someone who could possibly take the little critters, making phone calls to rescue centres and animal humane societies, but no one could help.

She put them in a cardboard box with a heating pad underneath, then we had to leave to pick up the new alternator for the truck.

When we returned found that one of the babies had died, but the other was moving around.

Kelli used a syringe with a thick hypodermic needle that I use for injecting glue into thin gaps to feed the tiny critter some kitten milk.

There was the worry about what we were going to do with it, but that was not a decision for today.