Well, this has been a morning to remember. First I couldn't Skype with B-J because the sound on her computer kept going off after making a lot of alien noises so she could hear me, but I couldn't hear her.
Then I was happily doing my morning routine when Veenitha arrived and we discovered that some kind of rodent; rat, mouse, mole, had climbed up the pipes into the Buddha room and had started digging. After that drama, we went to the kitchen to make tea and arrange flowers only to discover that the drain hose for the washing machine had disconnected from the pipe and the kitchen was flooded. The drain pipe had fallen out because the aforementioned rodent had chewed part of the drain pipe. The cardboard Christmas decoration box got a bit soaked along with the Christmas tree box. They are under a fan now trying to dry out, which is difficult in this monsoon season.
Yesterday, the plug point that I use for my toaster got fried by lightning.
The flood gave us a chance to really clean the kitchen though. Moved the fridge and the washing machine to wash under them. Thankfully, the gardener is here today, so he will put moth balls down the hole the rodent dug and replace the sand. Now I have to get rodent traps which in typical Buddhist fashion do not kill the thing just trap it for relocation. Buddha only knows how I am going to manage that as I can't stand the sight of the things. I will have to call in reinforcements.
The gardener came in to clean up the mess and promptly informed me that a snake is likely to follow the rodent up the hole. Just what I wanted to hear. We stuffed the holes with moth balls and filled them with sand. Now we just hope.
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