DC’s new pandas have arrived
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Stepped off the elevator yesterday on the 3rd floor where our office is. Dead mouse in the hallway. 
Called Property Mgmt about it and it was gone when I left last night.
Sitting at my desk at 2 p.m., about to get up to go downstairs to see if there’s mail, and I see movement in front of my office. Looked up - and there is a very slowly moving gray mouse walking in front of my door. I grabbed an extra wastebasket in my office and was able to plop it over the little guy. And I called Property Mgmt again to come get the barely alive cousin of yesterday’s mouse.
Turns out there’s a bit of a mouse problem in the residential units in the part of the Mill building our office is now located in, so they’ve put out some mouse poison. Guess this one made it through lots of hallways over to our office.
But I’m now wondering how my job title and description of “Administrative Manager” has expanded to include “Mouse Catcher.”
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Ugh, that’s terrible. Wish they’d put up humane traps. We caught a couple that way in my mom’s old apartment.
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Where’s those cats .
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Re: Humane mouse traps
Years ago, i was driving down our country road after work and spotted a parked pickup. A young couple outside, tailgate down with a wire cage in the back. Suspecting they were dropping off puppies/kittens (not unusual at all here)I stopped to ask if I could help. Four mice in the cage. They said they couldn’t bring themselves to kill the mice so they decided to find them a new home. I told them in no uncertain terms that we had more than enough rodents to go around in the neighborhood and didn’t need any more. They shut the tailgate, hopped in the truck and took off. Guess it was somebody else’s problem after that.
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Mouse deterrent = Original scent Irish Spring soap. Just leave an unwrapped bar anywhere you find mouse spore. Mice gone. Don’t ask why, but it works.
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I’ve been wondering about that. We had an agent through AAA we met with in person for years! I’ve wondered what might she be doing now.
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SATA no longer exists: it was absorbed/merged (?) with Azores Airlines. I only know because we are big Azores fans and were thinking about going back this past year. Maybe next year. It’s an expensive flight, even with the number of flights out of Boston or Providence.
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I want to schnarfle that belly! 
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There are still quite a few corporate travel agents who book business trips. In fact, my last job as a travel agent was exclusively booking travel for Jeld-Wen Corp., a window manufacturer based in Klamath Falls, OR (I was living in Portland, OR). However, I was let go when the Lehman Brothers/mortgage crisis started because no one was building new homes and Jeld-Wen wasn’t doing any business travel.
There are still a good number of specialty leisure travel agents, but they charge high fees and many will actually turn away business because so many (the majority of?) travel vendors don’t pay any commission at all.
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Thanks…I wasn’t aware of that! Looking up what happened, it seems that Azores Airlines (the former SATA International) flies the mid and long haul flights but Azores Airlines parent company, SATA Air Açores, flies the scheduled services (both passenger and cargo) within the Azores themselves. It’s quite confusing…even to me!
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Reading an article about a leak in NY’s Queens-Midown Tunnel. One of two people in a car who reported that water is interestingly enough named…wait for it…”Mr. Flood”
I find it quite odd that wasn’t even brought up in the article at all:exclamation:
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I saw they came via FedEx Panda Express
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Well, hiring a cat won’t work now. No sense in poisoning the kitty, too.
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We’ve used catnip. We heard mice don’t like mint family. That’s what they said about deer.
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Turning the clocks back November 3rd . Bringing the pizza oven inside to store for the winter. I’m having so much fun learning to make pizza . I know its still Fall . Im pretty sure , I’ll break it out during the winter .
Saturday. Will now turn into . Soups , braising , and stews .
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Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. It is all so very interesting.
The population chart is very interesting. Both MA and RI are smaller than NJ so the Portuguese population as a percentage of the total is very high. NJ is about a quarter the size of CA so we’re pretty close to each other.
We are thinking about going back to Portugal next year (we were there many, many years ago). We’ll have to look into including a detour to Madeira, or based on @digga’s several mentions of the Azores over time, the Azores.
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I’ve been in a major state of this for several days.
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