I Hate Meeses to Pieces

You may or may not know, but mice--aka RATS!--really creep me out. I can usually handle spiders, lizards or snakes, but when it comes to mice, anywhere near me, I totally freak. The other day, I saw one in the garage and figured it would be building a nest for the winter. I tried to keep it from getting into the house, so every time I needed to go into the garage, I’d first bang the door to keep it away. Well, I’m not sure if it was the same one or not, but I found one in our closet. Now, my closet is my place to get away from it all when I can’t get outside. So for a mouse to be invading my space, well, that’s just not right. I immediately asked Jim to please catch it, which, after several minutes of chasing it around in the closet, throwing it in the air with the dustpan and finally trapping it in the phone book and beating it to death, he got rid of it.
We’ve also heard them in the attic or in the walls. Then tonight, Cory thought she heard something in the kitchen making a scratching sound around the cupboard. Later, I heard a noise in the kitchen as well, I thought someone was in there but no one was.
Since mom is in Georgia for a few more days, I decided to go lie down in her room and read tonight. (By the way, the book is Max Lucado’s Outlive Your Life.) Anyway, I was reading and out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a mouse scurrying along the wall then behind her bookcase. I let out a scream (it was around 2 a.m.), jumped up on the bed, grabbed a couple of things and I was out of there. There is quite a space between the bottom of the door and the floor so I pushed a towel up under it. I sure hope it didn’t escape before I got the towel shoved under. Will have to wait until tomorrow to get more mousetraps and catch the little varmit.
I guess we need a cat or a snake to get the job done. I will keep you posted on the mouse invasion, but I know I won’t get much sleep tonight. I’ll either dream about rats or keep seeing them out of the corner of my eye.