h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The move sucked. Saturday was fine for loading the truck, but thunderstorms on Sunday meant getting soaked unloading... Plus being up until ~4am both nights loading and unloading REALLY sucked. And our new landlord has never rented before, and rented out two different places at once, and his inexperience as a landlord shows. When we first looked at the place, his maintenance person had a list of things that needed done to the property. I assumed this meant they'd be done before we moved in. Bad assumption. The place wasn't even cleaned before we moved in, which meant cleaning as we settled in, which means we're still not settled. It also meant repeatedly requesting the items to be done that needed done. And because the other place has some pretty major issues, it means most of the items still aren't done, and the most of the ones that are we've done ourselves. A couple of accidental texts to the landlord that were meant to be back and forth between the wife and I means the landlord knows how upset we are with him and is now pissed off at us. Too bad, because he's a really nice guy and the place is absolutely beautiful underneath all the grime and relatively minor annoyances, the biggest of which are related to the house sitting on an operating farm. There are lots of flies that we just can't keep out, not that we've tried anything beyond making sure the windows are closed tight and killing any live ones that we see... And there are apparently mice that get in when it's cold, like November in Ohio tends to be... Solutions exist for both issues, but we simply haven't had the time or energy to implement them yet... Specific herbs and plants in the window sills should drive the flies out, and getting a cat or two should keep the mice at bay... We're getting a cat tomorrow... And we have plans to do some planting soon... So, soon the two biggest issues should be resolved