Mice Musings

I wouldn't have made it without the snowshoe trail Andrew blazed through the fresh, deep, powdery snow.


Climbing up off the front porch to the trail/trench, while keeping an eye on the snow ready to slide off the roof was exhilarating.

Andrew waged his war outside but mine took place inside. For the first time ever mice came to visit for Thanksgiving. By Christmas they had left a few to many presents for us. 18 traps have been left for the next cabin visitors to check. The snap traps are placed:
-to the right of the computer table behind the board
-SE living room corner behind the foam mat
-left of the fireplace behind the woodpile
-right of fireplace behind red cushion
-SW corner behind dining table extension
-under stove (oops, no room to flip lever)
-left of refrigerator behind trays
-under lower stairs to loft
-in utility closet behind the old broken snow shovel
-in both bathrooms behind the wastebaskets
-floor of hallway food storage cupboard
The sticky mat traps are:
-on my bed (hey that's where I found the first de con pellets)
-under the west side of the sofa that faces the fireplace
-scattered in the utility closet
-next to the wine storage, in case they have a palate for 2 buck Chuck
And then because some of us think it's a big coincidence that the mice appeared not long after the re plumbing, there is duct tape around the new pipes in the bedroom closet. If those varmits climb up the pipes they will show us how they chewed through the duct tape, I hope.
One 'crawl inside' type trap is in the water pipe closet and the other in the kitchen.
All traps were baited with peanut butter &/or bacon grease. I knew they liked bacon grease because they had been sampling from the can left out on the counter.
Approaching the war front another front, Andrew & Becky put into action 2 sonic repellents. If we don't catch anything it's because our mouse friends have been driven away. I'm sure.
So that's how I spent my weekend. How was yours?