update from the land of the dead...

Yesterday morning, I thought I smelled a dead mouse in my house (again).

Thought I heard one the other night, but have not seen evidence.

Yesterday, I didn't paint my office as planned, 

but worked on a client.

Then I went to a moonshine tasting....awesome.

That put me in this super mellow mood.

I didn't smell anything dead in my house.

Thought i was safe.

this morning, i really could smell the critter.

I found it at 8:23am.  I decided to do the disposal myself.

This is huge....

i had to attend to my own awful fears.

I put my gloves on....then I cleaned my bathroom.

I split kilning.  I moved my wood stack to consolidate.

I moved lawn furniture, dead-headed pansies & cleaned my grill.

Cleaned two smoking  pipes, folded sheets, washed three loads.

Burned through one glove, applied a new right hand glove....

went next door and asked my neighbor to do the disposal for me.

she told me to go find another sucker.

came back in, and slid a broken spatula

under the mouse and put it in the trash 

no screaming

no dancing

no outward display of utter terror.

I even spent time looking at it all curled up and decomposing.

of course....since it was behind the water heater,

i spent five times looking in that direction, 

but not looking exactly at the dead creature.

that is when i went to find someone else to do it for me.

I heard in my head, "Jamie, you are the one caught in the trap!"

Must have been Matayo....he talked to me like that.

three times more, I took a quick look at the dead mouse, then looked away.

It took me three hours to pick up that mouse,

but i did it with honor.  

I lit incense, offered it up.

Hope i don't have to do this again.