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June 13. The Adventure Begins.

All my clothes are damp. My 12 hour flight from Boston to LA had a layover in New Orleans and all the luggage was left on the tarmac in the pouring rain, including my large canvas duffle bag! The airline also lost the 4 person camp tent we planned on using. We’ll have to stop at the airport and have them send it back to Boston.

We are staying at The Flamingo Dump Motel  $45. a night to test our courage before the great endurance test… There are no chairs in the room, the ceiling fan doesn’t work, the toilet leaks, there is no hot water in the bathroom sink and the whole room has this damp quality. The view is of a roof!… but we are so exhausted we slept a little… I haven’t tried the shower yet, I kind of hesitate as there is no hot water… My clothes are hanging up to dry… My sister arranged for a friend to loan us their 2 person pup tent. Life on the road is going to be tight.

10:30 am – Breakfast at the Venice Sidewalk Cafe watching the wackos and muscle beach types roller skate by. Too cool for comfort.

12:10 Leaving LA – heading for Needles, California – that’s 250 miles with rest stops,of course.

First I show you the creatures – little woodrats!:

Wood Rats at Large!!!

Then the Have A Heart Trap:

Wood Rats In A Have A Heart Trap

And finally, the terrified little woodrat staring out from the trap, it’s nasty little teeth ready to pounce in revenge!

Cute little Wood Rat justifiably terrified.

If you want to capture the creatures, then bring the trap out to the woods far from your home where you can let them go into the wild… then this is the trap for you.

You can find Have A Heart Traps online. Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/JPfhfz

Of course you do take the chance that because of your kindness, the creatures decide your home is the very best of all and they find their way back to you in celebration.

Your choice!

I’ve been invaded once again by little four legged creatures who belong outdoors but insist on coming inside, running across the threshold to my TV room just as I’m watching a particularly gory scene from Grey’s Anatomy. I have had a mouse in the house once again. It’s gone, fortunately. Well, it’s dead, actually. I killed it and its little body is now in a trash bag on the back porch. My sister bought me a very effective little trap, I added a bit of munster and an hour later, “SNAP!”

I almost thought to borrow a cat from a neighbor, or get one of those boxes of D-Kon that poisons those who eat it and drives them out to the woods to die… but those solutions are slow and unsure. The trap worked quickly and the hungry mouse has gone to the land of endless cheese.

But it brings up the question… what is the humane? way to rid your home of these unwanted visitors? Perhaps you are lucky and never encounter the little beasts. But if you do, what do you do?

I am in technological HELL! Been working for three days on a project that just can’t be fixed. I’ve got tech support on the line, tech articles open on my desk, self-help druids roaming in the woods behind the office!!!! And my hair falling out in patches… bright golden patches (just had my hair done… sigh.)

So what am I to do? Mercury is not in retrograde. My friend Karen checked for me…. but something is going wrong in the magical tehno universe somewhere behind those clouds…

I need to shout, to scream, to take a long walk off a short pier…. How did I get myself into this computer wizard thingy anyway?

I used to sit calmly at my drawing table, sketching lovely things, thinking lovely thoughts, and smelling roses, because I had time to stop and take it all in….

Now it’s just one long day at the keyboard, staring into an LCD screen, struggling with hidden computer chips and sim cards and ready to scahream!!!! because nothing works.

Of course, I do have this moment to write and complain, and tell you all about it, thanks to the wonder of it all. But is it worth it? Is the techno babble trade off and the melting of my mind into mush worth it????

I need to go play golf… belt a few balls around… and then belt one or two back. Sigh.

If you’re reading this, you too are a techie geek… at least you read blogs occasionally… what do you think? Are we all going mad?

Want to listen to the music??? Click on the YouTube video just below and listen to the song! Julie has super diction! You have to agree! And just try not to shake your booty, head, tap your toe or two. Enjoy.

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Alas, it is all a memory now… but the musical by Lerner and Lowe was a real smash at the time. The lyrics and music work so well together, don’t you think?… they are just mahvelous, and so much fun to sing loud and lusty so everyone can hear….  and Today, being the first of May… it seems appropriate to do more than hummmmmm along.

So tell the truth. What did your body do when you listened to this lusty song? Leave a comment and tell the truth.