A few weeks ago I made a post about being a Mouse Catcher, well it is that time of year and they are back. This is the first year that I have actually seen mice in my house and am not liking it. So, anyways Sunday night I was sitting downstairs in front of a warm fire watching TV after Josie had gone to bed and I kept hearing a noise. I would mute the TV and the noise would stop. Turn on the volume, I would hear it again and so on. I thought to myself crap, here we go again. On Monday night, I told Brent about my evening Sunday and went to place my drink on top of the entertainment center so that Josie would not get into it. It was then that I discovered what I had heard the night before. I had placed a back of crackers on top of the entertainment center to keep Josie's little hands from eating the entire bag and that is what the little pest was getting into. From the looks of it, he had been coming back for days. I told Brent to get the traps we were going to catch the pesky thing that night when he comes back to get the snack and the snack is no longer there the trap can get him instead. Brent thought it was a great plan and ventured over to his friends house who had some traps. Since we did not. You would have thought that after the last episode we would have some on hand, but no. Let me just say that I should have went and picked up the traps because he was gone for hours. I should have known. While he was gone (since he was gone FOREVER) the pest came back. I was on the computer getting ready to make a post and checking my email and I could hear something like in the wall or something. Next thing I know the mouse is running across the table next to me. I am lucky that my water did not break early because I was hyperventilating at that point. I mean it was right by me. I was so mad at this point that Brent was not back with the traps we could have caught the dang thing. I high tailed it out of the basement and on the phone I got. Oh, course Brent did not answer his cell phone but boy did I leave a nasty voicemail full of cuss words to get home immediately with the traps. I soon got ahold of him and his response was "crap, we missed it!" Well, duh.
Monday night, Brent set out 6 glue traps to catch our unwanted house visitor. When I got up Tuesday, I made him go check the traps before I went to work for piece of mind. He came upstairs with a smile on his face. Yeah I thought, but his response was don't get to happy yet. We had indeed caught the friend, but somehow had managed to get loose off the extremely sticky trap carry it a little ways and then get loose. How in the world?!
Tuesday, Brent purchased more traps while in town and set them out. So, now we have 10 traps set to caught our unwanted friend and it was a success. Tuesday night our friend was no longer in our house. Thank god! We have had the traps set all week and still no more unwanted visitors have came to visit. I am hoping that was the only one that we had and will be the last one. I know that is probably not the case living in the country, but for this year I have had enough.
We will keep the 10 traps set and ready to go for a while just to make sure, but like I told Brent I do not think 10 traps is enough with my fear and all. Josie has been cooped up playing upstairs all week, because I do not want her to get into a trap, so soon I hope we can venture back downstairs and play again near the fire.
So, if you have been wondering why I did not post this week, it was because the computer is located near the sighting of the mouse and I was like on pins and needles each time I would get near the computer thinking there was one close by.
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