Say hello to my little friend…

Yes, this is our latest “visitor” to the Adam household.  We’ve had a couple of mice since we’ve been married (yesterday was our two year anniversary!!! 🙂  Our little mice visitors are the tiniest mice I’ve ever seen.  I would probably be a little more freaked out if the were bigger, but these guys are teeny and fast as lightening (not to mention the fact that we’re moving in two weeks and hopefully leaving our mouse adventures behind).  It’s always interesting to try and catch the mice.  We’re both too soft hearted to kill the little fellahs, so we’ve gotten all of our mice humanely and then taken them back to the field down the street from which they came (yes, we’re probably just recatching the same mouse over and over).  Our latest friend was a tricky one.  We put out the humane traps and tried to lure him with all of the things mice are supposed to like…peanut butter, bread, dog food…nothing worked.  Two nights ago I was cleaning up in the kitchen and I kept hearing a mousy rustling kind of sound.  I looked around to see where it was coming from and sure enough I see a little furry mouse body in our toaster (note to self…invest in new toaster).  I went and told Doug about the mouse sighting.  Now, Doug is a well trained and highly skilled mouse hunter and loves the thrill of the chase so he immediately grabbed a big envelope and went in to trap the mouse.  Doug put the envelope over the top of the toaster and put the toaster in a big box…nothing.  We didn’t see the mouse anywhere in the toaster.  Doug was shaking it, turning it upside down…no mouse so we go to bed.  Fast forward to 4:30am the next morning.  Macy wakes me up with her usual morning grunts and I hear strange sounds coming from the living room.  I go to investigate and there is the mouse in the box next to the toaster!  I have NO idea where he was hiding in the toaster to escape Doug’s search, but I’m very thankful that Doug left the toaster in the box!  The little guy was climbing to the top of the toaster and then trying to JUMP out of this huge box (aren’t mice supposed to chew their way out of things?)  So Doug somehow got the toaster out of the box without the mouse running back in…I told you he had skills…and took the mouse back to his field.  Hopefully it will take him longer than 2 weeks to make his way back this time. 🙂  And if anyone has thoughts on how to sterilize a toaster, please let me know. 🙂