Bedbugs and a dead mouse--great homeschool opportunities

[Garga]

All day yesterday, as dh and I were bagging up our stuff and putting it in the bathroom/laundryroom (preparing for the Ninja Bug Guy to come treat our home for bedbugs) we kept smelling something funky. We live close to farms and sometimes we can smell a poop smell coming from them. (I have no clue what they're doing on those farms...I'm a displaced suburbanite.)

 

Anyhoo, we just thought that the farms must be particularly rank yesterday and the wind was blowing all that smell into the house. So, I closed the window, but the smell got WORSE.

 

Turns out that there was a dead mouse in the dryer. I know this because when my Ninja Bug Guy exterminator came today, he was so disgusted by the dead mouse smell that he had to poke around in the bathroom/laundryroom until he found the source of the smell.

 

 

Here's the homeschool part:

 

1. When we studied the Black Death in SOTW, we made the nosegays (nice smelling fabric bags to hold up to your nose to cover the smells associated with the Black Death). Today, I got those suckers out and held it up to my nose every time I had to go in the bathroom/laundry room. They work really well!

 

2. The boys want to keep the mouse (once we remove the back of the dryer and find it) and put it in a jar and watch it decompose. They told me that it would be a great homeschool science project. And I totally agree with them!

 

 

(And yes, when it rains it pours. I mean, honestly--bedbugs AND a dead mouse? At the same time?!? Is that even allowed???)

[Starr]

It's only allowed if once it's over it's done forever!