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| Mouse Trap! |
Before Christmas, our neighbor, Beth (all of our neighbors are female, btw) came running up to our front door to see if Ron could come over to our OTHER neighbor, Lisa's, to help them remove a mouse that was cornered on her stove top. EWA! Of course, the man of the block went over and took care of it. Our immediate reaction was to scour our house for any signs of those little rodents, of which we didn't find a one.
Post Christmas, I almost threw up in my mouth when i noticed some mousey poos under the sink in our kitchen! Again, we looked everywhere else in the house and saw no signs of the little stinkers. Since they weren't in our food and we couldn't figure out how they were getting into the sink area, we thought we might have been imagining things, but sure enough this Friday I was completely grossed out to find more remnants of our little guests.
Saturday morning I got up to teach interval class, and when I came home, not only did Ron have everything pulled out from underneath the sink, the stove pulled from the wall and the run of the mill mouse traps set in both of those places, but he had invented this beauty! I immediately thought back to the days when Kyle and I would play the game "Mouse Trap".... c'mon you know you played it too! :) At least until you lost one tiny piece which meant the game was automatically OVER.
So for Ron's trap.... the mouse runs up the cardboard ramp... across the pipecleaner balance beam and onto the rotating cup of peanut butter heaven.... until the cup rotates and they are plunked into the moat of doom below. Brilliant!!
Update: we have caught one mouse... with the standard mouse trap. Ron has caulked around all but one entry way we feel the boogers are coming in from, and so far, no signs of them since the death of the martyr.
Ahh! :) Never a dull moment!
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