We have had a visitor for the last couple of nights ... someone left the garage door slightly ajar and a little mouse came in and made itself at home.
The thing has overstayed its welcome so I stopped by the Dollar General Store last night and bought some mouse traps.
Being the hunter that I am, I opened the traps and commenced to do the dastardly deed. Yvonne said she wanted to "bait" the traps and put some American cheese on three of them (I am not sure of the mouse's nationality).
I awakened this morning a little before seven am (I go in late today so I slepped in awhile) to the pitter-patter of little feet running across the wooden floor in our "TV" room. Yvonne was already gone so I went about "checking" the traps. One of them had all the cheese eaten from it so I checked it ... Yvonne had slid that little wire (that keeps the trap sprung) all the way through the trigger. I could have jumped up and down on it and it wouldn't have snapped shut ...
I went to work on that trap but decided against using American cheese. I used peanut butter instead. I figured, that with all the negative publicity about peanut butter causing people to get sick from botulism toxins in it, that I had two chances to get him (or her). Oh GAG! ... the thought just hit me ... could that thing be pregnant?????
Well at least, the "rat" could die from the pressures of the mouse trap or die from eating the "bad" peanut butter.
"BO_TOX"????? At least it will die without having a wrinkled forehead ... too late for me.
So please pray for us ... and also pray that the Lord will call that little mousie home soon ... to at least put both of us out of our misery ...
