August 17, 2022 (Wed)

Woke up this morning at 4:15a to Charli (the cat) routing around under the bed.  She was so loud!  So I put on my slippers and grabbed the flashlight.  To my surprise, she was sitting on top of the bed on Kevin's pillow looking interestingly over the side of the bed.  I realized we'd caught our first mouse in a sticky trap!  It was awful.  I knew we were coming into that time of year that the creatures want into the warm house and that mouse traps were necessary.  I can't use those flippy ones because I constantly snap my own fingers while setting them!

So I bought a bunch of sticky traps and here we were.  What to do?  Then I heard another weird sound....like a squirrel or a bird squeaking in the rafters. Orville had told us that the squirrels are obnoxious and wreak havoc everywhere they go so to shoot them all.  I slowly climbed the steep stairs up because I couldn't pinpoint where the noise was coming from.  Had a bird somehow gotten into the upstairs and couldn't get out/?  Charli met me on the stairs all wide-eyed and freaked out.  Then I realized it was coming from a corner of the living room, right next to where Sam was laying on her bed!  Another mouse caught in a sticky trap and this one was mad!  Sam was surprisingly calm and obviously, Charli is NOT a  mouser so I decided to go back to bed and hopefully they would die and be quiet before I woke back up.

Back up at 6:30a and both mice are still squirming around.  I'm not gonna lie....I was a total girl and creeped out!  I grabbed some large work gloves from a box of leftover stuff, put the sticky traps in a bag, and threw it into the burn barrel.  Where is a man when you need him??  I realize how tough mom used to be....this time of year she would catch 8-12 per day in those flippy traps.  We would hear the "snap!", she would empty them out, reset them and move on.  Not me.....ugh....at least they aren't snakes!