The plural of mouse is mice so the plural of house should be hice. Here in Smalltown the mice are headed for the hice. Lifelong residents of Smalltown tell me that when the mice come in this soon and in such numbers, it means we're headed for a tough winter. I learned to bait a mousetrap yesterday from my neighbor Matt Carter. Matt and his wife Rita are in their 70s, have lived here for years, and know mouse behavior patterns. So far I have trapped two mice. I have a strong stomach as a rule but it is still hard to eat breakfast after disposing of a recently deceased mouse.
By the way, the plural of vortex is vortices and the plural of index is indices, so the plural of kleenex should be kleenices.
More random thoughts...The nighttime sounds of Smalltown, other than mice scuffling, are as follows: Dog barks and train whistles. Any questions?
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Only one question: does your village have a centralized fire siren to alert the volunteers who are away from their cell phones or pagers? Our town's siren seems to go off at odd intervals. I surely hope there aren't THAT many fires. The oddest time was about 1:15 ayem. Not a good time for sirens or fires.
You left out cars playing really loud music. That's
train whistles, dogs, and amplified bass.
One year two rats came in and nested in my son's
bass horn (he was not practicing that much, apparently.) We killed the adults, but then discovered two babies who were 'way too cute to kill, so we raised them. When they grew up, we sold them to the University of Texas for a handsome sum. They were genuine field rats - much more valuable than lab rats. For years I looked for them to come to
our doorstep on holidays, but alas....
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