Sore

[annuin]

Sunday was spent helping Kit and Cherie move from their old place into their respective new places. In stark contrast to when they moved into their previous place it was blisteringly hot as opposed to blindingly cold... I think cold is easier to deal with and at least one doesn't feel so sluggish or feel sweat trickling down places it should never go.

We managed to get quite a lot done nonetheless and most of the stuff was moved where it needed to go. At around 9.30 we headed home, of course it was insanely busy on the roads after being a really warm weekend so we hit traffic at the Turnpike tollbooths, the run up the Geo W. bridge and then again on the Tappan Zee bridge as well... we didn't get home until 11.30, which is ironic considering Kit and Cherie live at least about half an hour further north and therefore closer to us now.

Upon arriving home sweaty clothes were peeled off and refreshing showers were had. I had a kind of nasty looking heat rash on my upper back and chest which was icky... I think my skin disagreed with having a sweaty tshirt stuck to it for the better part of the day. It had faded substantially by morning luckily. Muscles hitherto unknown to me have made their presence known this morning, everything is sore and achy. Hopefully I'll feel like moving again by morning.

On an entirely different topic, there's still a mouse on the loose in the kitchen, I saw the little bastard on the counter earlier. I'm hoping it's the one that got away and not a different one altogether. I also think they've wisened up to the glue traps which is a big old pain in the ass, and I think that less humane yet more effective measures are starting to seem more and more appealing. I'm sick of the mouse shit and the mouse pee everywhere... I'm sick of needing to clean the entire countertop whenever I want to prep anything or touch it... the idea of putting something edible on a surface where a scummy mouse has run around and peed and crapped on is NOT appealing. Death to the mousies!

Comments

[catdraco.livejournal.com]

My mother swears by peanut butter and bacon rind as mousebait.
=)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll bear that in mind... peanut butter we have on hand. Should be easy to lace with poison, which is my next course of action.

Re:

[catdraco.livejournal.com]

Mm, my mother has always used it with traditional mouse traps - the neck snapping kind. The great thing about peanut butter is that it will get the veteran mice - mice get very clever and learn to wiggle other kinds of mousebait off traps without setting them off, but with peanut butter they just have to stand there and nose about in it.

Gets 'em every time...

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that the remnants of a neck-snapping trap attack is a mess I really want to clean up off the counter ;)

But I'll see what's availible at the store, and I'll definitely remember the peanut butter thing, as I can definitely see the food-wiggling thing happening... it's on par with the way they avoid walking on the sticky traps.

[ddurkee.livejournal.com]

It doesn't decapitate them, just applies enough pressure to kill the bastard but doesn't slice the skin, at least from the ones I've seen in mousetraps. Just pick the whole thing up by the tail and trash it. Sorry you're having so many problems with the suckers!

[katherynne.livejournal.com]

We've always used poison on the mice in our home; I don't know how helpful that is, but ours all seem to be gone now, so I thought I'd offer the information anyway. :)

Re:

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Yes, poison was the next option... it's easier to find something they'll eat and that will kill them than to have them walk over something that will stick, because the "bait" on those traps doesn't really attract them at all as far as I can tell.

I tried being nice and humane, but this is war ;)

poison

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure how long it takes for the poison to do its thing (whatever that is), but if the mouse doesn't die right away, it might end up cralling under your stove, fridge, in your walls, or some other inconvenient place, and die there.

We had a mouse problem in our previous house, and decided against using poison (by itself) for the reasons mentioned above. Instead, we got one of those wind-up mouse traps and put poison bait (the bait isn't necessary though) in the compartment that the mouse gets "flipped" into. So, the mouse goes into the hole, gets "flipped" into the holding compartment, where it eats the poisoned bait, then dies. All you have to do after is throw out the dead mouse.

You can see an example of one of these traps at http://traps.freeuk..com/wind-up-mouse-trap.htm or http://shop.store.yahoo.com/mainsupply/minimouser.htm

We found this method to be very effective, and at least this way, you wont have to pull out your stove or fridge to retrieve the smelly, rotting mouse carcass.

-Vespertine

Re: poison

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read the package on some of that poioned bait and it said 4-5 days... there's no way I'm giving a mouse several more days to run around and poo on my kitchen counter. That and I don't think that it's all that humane for a slow death like that...

I just bought some of those regular snap traps... we'll see how that goes.

Re: poison

[doth.livejournal.com]

Make sure you don't catch your fingers in one. That really hurts. Trust me on this one.