Definitely scary, Kate--I had something similar happen a while back and it freaked me out all night (until the next morning when I realized the dude had puked on my front door before leaving!)

Ok, time to buckle down. Have done the important work, have many things just waiting on someone else to get back to me. So it's time to tackle the boring filing-type stuff. Tunes are on, and I wanna get this done before its hot this afternoon. Told myself I'd get started once I post this, and if I work until noon I can then do some other stuff I want to.

Argh. People are making my easy Mexico account complicated. Stop it, people, we want to make Latin American customers simpler to ship not more complicated!

I am freaking out. Just had Salvation Army come and pick up the furniture that we weren't able to sell. This included my china cabinet that I've been holding onto since we moved from California, hoping to have a place for it. It has been in the garage, wrapped in pads from the initial move.

They moved everything else into the truck and were loading the bottom half of the china cabinet when the bottom drawer tilted open a bit and spilled out bird seed, upolstery fluff, and dead mice. WTF!!!!! Why did we have a drawer full of bird seed and upolstery fluff? Yes, perfect home for mice, but we have never owned bird, never purchased bird seed. EVER. And, if by some odd somehow, we did have a drawer full of this stuff, why didn't it spill when we moved from the old old apartment into the more recently old apartment? WTF!!!! Salvation Army, of course, refused to take the cabinet but helped get it over to the garbage dumpster where lots of other residents dump furniture. If it was just general sloth that led to the dead mice, I'd just be embarassed. But where the fuck did the bird seed and fluff come from. Why? How? What? Why?

Suzi, it sounds like a critter got into the garage and made itself a cozy nest and pantry in your china cabinet.

You probably have neighbors going "What the hell is eating the bird seed?" and "What gnawed that hole in my couch and took the stuffing?"

I often wish I could rewind the universe like a video just to see what sequence of events lead to the bizarre thing I'm looking at.

Yesterday I found a twisted-together jumble of about five shiny-bright never-used ruined wire clothes hangars, lying in my side yard between my neighbor's fence and my heat pump, where no one goes. What the hell? Who did that, and what for, and how did it get there? It looked like something a tornado would have dropped.

a twisted-together jumble of about five shiny-bright never-used ruined wire clothes hangars

And in his underground lair a block away, Dr. Nefaria is rooting through his workshop muttering "Where did I put the Universal Discombobulation Antenna? It was just here."

Suzi, the mice might have been industrious and moved the bird seed.

I have a cousin whose apartment became infested with mice she and her family had to move out for a bit. She did have a bit of a reaction of BURN IT ALL because there was mouse droppings in her infant's bassinet.

Anyway her husband was moving the couch and they found several pounds of dog food that they think the mice moved to hid there. Its' either that or her girls were moving the dog food and they don't think that was going on.

And in his underground lair a block away, Dr. Nefaria is rooting through his workshop muttering "Where did I put the Universal Discombobulation Antenna? It was just here."

Oh, so that's who keeps shortcutting through my yard! shakes fist Nefaria, you bastard, this isn't over!

ahem

So, my doctor appointment was cancelled as I was enroute, so I got lunch and came back home, and it started pouring rain about fifteen minutes after I got home. If I'd gone to the appointment, I'd have gotten caught in the rain coming home. Instead, I'm comfy and dry and I have fried chicken. I call today a win for me.

Askye, it was a drawer FULL of seed. Like a 20 lb bag of seed. How does that happen?