A Bold Mouse & Untimely Demises!

Last week, we were visited by a very bold mouse! It ran across Dave's feet while he was in the bathroom. Later, while he was sitting at his computer in our "living room", he looked down and saw a mouse (presumably the same one) sitting there grooming...bold as can be! As soon as he moved, the mouse ran toward me and the front of the RV. I missed out on seeing it and, no, I don't have a picture!

Well, I believe it was the next day that Dave saw a mouse outside the RV right by the laundry room. The laundry room faces the front of the RV. So, we wondered if it was the same mouse. If it was, it met its demise for Dave stepped on it. :P

We have mouse traps beneath the bottom drawers in our "kitchen". I try to remember to check them...but I forgot. Yesterday, we started to notice this awful smell. I did a trap check and, sure enough, we had caught another one of those critters.

We don't know which of those mice was the bold one. It is possible that it was neither..or even both! Such is the life of RV living on the land. We keep those traps set and baited!

From our little RV on the hillside to you in your home...I sure hope you don't have any regular furry little visitors like we do!

Other Bugs!

I have pictures of a couple of other bugs I found on our land. I don't know what they are.













This is a water bug in our creek:

Rocks & Fossils!

We have LOTS of fossils on our property. I don't have a lot of pictures, yet. Or I don't have them all sorted. However, here are a few of the interesting types of fossils we find.




We don't know what this one is. It reminds us of the tunnels carved out by some kind of worm.



This is a bunch of tiny shells and coral all pressed together.







This is a piece of coral.




We don't know what this is exactly, either.





We also have some nautiloids. I really need to get some pictures!

Answer to ? About our Acres

The following comment was posted:

if you have 7 ackers off land then why did you put your RV where you did? Couldnt there be a better place? how did you get 7 ackers, if I may ask


I am not sure I quite understand your question, or what you mean by "a better place"; but I will try to answer it. When we bought the acreage we looked at the lay of the land and tried to figure out where the best place would be to put a workshop and a home. At that time, we were hoping to get a workshop built and put a small apartment at one end of it.

Our land has a creek near the road, then a meadow, then a hillside. We cut two flat pads on the hillside...an upper one for the workshop and a lower one for what ever we would do in the future. Since we only had enough money to run the power, water and septic to the lower pad, that became the place for the motor home. It is right above the meadow, which, personally, I like better than being on the upper pad. I would not have the same view up there as I do here.

When we moved to this part of the country, we discovered that all the houses in our price range were not really fit to be lived in. Most looked as if they needed to be bulldozed and rebuilt. They had weak foundations and other structural problems. The only thing we could really afford was acreage. Of the land we considered, this was by far the best suited for us at the time.

I hope that answers your questions. Thanks for coming by. :)