10/01: A Visitor

Sunday morning I sat on our loveseat, which faces the dining room. I was calmly sitting, thinking about what to accomplish during the day, when I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye a brown traveler sprinting from the kitchen through the dining room.

Um.... trick of my bifocals?

Last night I went into the pantry to get some bread fixin's and found the pantry floor littered with flour. A quick review gave me all the info I needed.

We have a mouse. Or two.

Doug blocked the pantry door for the night. I awoke this morning and began cleaning the kitchen. Weslee and I popped over to Wal-Mart for tubs. It took only a few more hours to go through the entire kitchen and pantry, throwing out those things the mouse(s) had nibbled on, and storing those things in plastic into the tubs.

I sat down for a rest, back on the loveseat, and darned if that critter ran across the dining room into the kitchen. I searched but couldn't find him (her?) so I'm thinking he went under the empty space under the dishwasher.

Doug got home from work, went into another room to get ready to bait traps, and that critter sprinted across the dining room again, down into the family room. We think he's got a hidey-hole in the family room's fireplace.

Now Doug's baited quite a few traps and set them in the kitchen, dining room and family room. We'll see.

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