Be courageous, be persistent, be diligent as a mouse.
My office is located in the basement of the church. There are some freeway entrances and exits specifically suited for vermin. A while back when I had previous mice problems it was suggested to stuff the holes with steel wool. “They can’t chew through steel wool” the said. They were wrong.
A couple of days ago, while I was hard at work, (okay I was reading your blogs) I heard sounds coming from the wall. A critter was making his way through the steel wool. Now I had a front row seat of my very own episode of MYTHBUSTERS. This myth has definetly been busted.
Saturday, I’m sitting at my desk retrieving a file from my computer and a mouse goes running across the floor. Obstacle # 1 (the steel wool) has been conquered. I did see that the mouse dropped a tiny pair of wire cutters on his dash across the open terrain.
Sunday, the mouse has discovered my bag of fish food knocked it off on to the floor and has begun chewing through the bag.
Monday, time to get serious and catch a mouse. Having had success in previous episodes of mouse trapping I resorted once again to the trap and the dab of peanut butter.
Tuesday, outwit, outlast, outplayed. This morning both traps have been sprung, the peanut butter is gone and there is no mouse.
I sat down at my computer to blog about a meaningful spiritual topic when my peripheral vision catches something to my right. Seated directly on top of my CPU (which is on my desk) is the mouse. The mouse knows I am in the room, knows that I can see him and is just looking right at me. I swear to you by whatever oath the rescuers take this mouse was telling me “hey, why don’t you just put the peanut butter on a spoon and forget all this cloak and dagger stuff. Give peace a chance. Can’t we all just get along?”
I put my gloves on and scooped him into a bucket. What happened next I have been sworn to secrecy not to disclose. I’ll just say this “I work with an individual you don’t want to tangle with.”
I guess this means I’ll save the super spiritual blog for tomorrow.
