I have exciting news. A new blogging challenge begins this Saturday and ends sometime near the start of 2012. The challenge is to write about something that happens each day, good or bad, but mostly good, and comment on the blogs of others. That last part wasn't stated in the challenge post, but I think it's implied that you should comment too. That's just good blogging. Right, Pronto?
So, here goes.
Today I removed a live mouse from a glue trap under our stove. I really can't say more than that because I'm pretty shaken up. Tomorrow I'll be ridding our house of glue traps because I never want to go through that again. And neither does the mouse.
Okay. That was a good warm up. Look for more exciting (or mundane) posts starting Saturday!
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Slapdash! I think it's great that both of us started the challenge with home-maintenance related anecdotes. Even if yours sounds really upsetting.
P.S. All about cross-challenge commenting, because I like getting comments.
Slapdash! I think it's great that both of us started the challenge with home-maintenance related anecdotes. Even if yours sounds really upsetting.
P.S. All about cross-challenge commenting, because I like getting comments.
...That being said, I didn't mean to post that twice.
No problem, IRoaCR! The double posting of comments makes me look all the more popular.
I'm in. It's about time I blog more consistantly.
I guess it happened sooner than we thought. Go blog challenge.
cdoc! Welcome to the challenge. Very exciting.
mm -- I know! We were just talking about a challenge.
I once had to look at a glue trap. So yucky. I actually sent some students outside to deal with it. i'm pretty sure they used a cement block, but it's better I don't know.
You're right, that is just good blogging!
A couple of my college friends got mice in their Boston apartment because of their relatively lax home-keeping skills. They used glue traps, but couldn't bear to kill the mice up close, so they would throw the traps and mice out the fifth-floor window.
Welcome to the challenge!
Remember that chipmunk we had? He ate a whole box of poison and is dead somewhere now. We can smell his cadaver, but we can not find it.
How'd you get the mouse out of the glue trap I'm wondering?
Mike just bought glue traps today for our garage. I am letting him handle them. They really are a man's job. Where was Dave in this process????
Dave was at work and I couldn't look at that mouse all day. I stuck a stick in the glue and dumped the whole trap and mouse into a plastic bag. Then I put the bag in the trash outside. It was a slow death for that mouse, but I could not get myself to quicken it in any way.
The glue traps are gone now and the mice are running free. Except for the dead ones we can smell and cannot find either, LH. What do we do about that? I am ready to take the walls apart I hate it so much!
Unfortunately, jdoc, I have a lot of mouse experience. When we were getting ready to put our house on the market, a mouse carcass fell on my head (courtesy of the poison sprinkled around) as I cleaned out the pantry. It was almost as bad as the time I decapitated a bat by slamming the window shut on it, but that's another story.
The guy at Home Depot scoffed, but as a last resort I bought some of those ultrasonic repellers that you plug into the electric socket, and I never saw another mouse (or droppings) in our very old, full-of-holes house again.
However, the Delaware mice don't seem deterred by sound waves. Besides an exterminator, I recommend those big, expensive traps that kill the mouse and then close so you don't have to see it.
Jill, I'm sorry you have so much mouse experience (a dead mouse on your head!!!!), but it could work to my advantage. I'm going to look into the sound waves and the big traps. I'm so desperate to rid the house of mice that I've been thinking about getting a cat. Ugh.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly why the people who lived in our Mpls house before us had a cat!
Good luck!!!
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