Mice

Have I ever told you all that I have a slight phobia of mice?  Ok, it's not slight!  I am terrified of mice!  This is the one thing I absolutely hate about living in the country.  We get mice all the time, especially in the fall after they are run out of the fields.  Did I mention we are surrounded by fields?  Yuck!  I have had some especially messed up run ins with mice this year, I won't bore you (or amuse you, some of them are doozies) with all of them but after today's I just had to write it. 

We've been trying to catch a certain mouse for about a week now, no can do. But I've noticed less "evidence" lately so I checked my mouse bait and noticed one had definitely been gotten into.  So I figured it had gone off and died somewhere. (yes!) Adios and good riddance

I was getting Dani dressed when I notice mice droppings in Dani's bottom drawer.  Eeew.  So I went to see if it was just the one on top or if it was more.  I picked up a handful of tights and saw a mouse!  OH MY GOSH!!!!!  I almost touched it!!!!  It was dead but looked little.  The one I'd seen I was sure was bigger than that.

This is where I really tried to overcome my fears.  I decided I couldn't leave it in the drawer and since it was dead I would grab something long ( was NOT going to touch it even with gloves on) and get it into a plastic sack to throw outside till CJ could dispose of it.  (thank goodness he's not scared of mice, he does all mice getting)  So I grabbed a wooden spoon I never use and started moving the tights around when I see another small mouse in a different spot!  OH MY GOSH!!!!  I realized that I think it's a nest and the mother took the bait back as food.  That was WAY too much for me to handle and I just couldn't have it in my house anymore and there was no way in heck I was going to try to be brave anymore!  That was a lost cause to begin with, I don't know what I was thinking.  So her drawer is sitting outside on our porch until CJ gets home at 7pm tonight.  First thing he's gonna do tonight is get those things out of range of the house and shake out all the clothes, sanitize the drawer and then wash all the clothes those things touched!  Living in the country is just making this phobia worse.  Mice are proving to me they are as bad as I have feared since I was 6 years old!