Comments on: A MOUSE TALE-LONG STORY http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/ Just another blogs.splitcoaststampers.com weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sheila http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16529 Sheila Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:37:04 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16529 Lauren I am definitely feeling your pain! Years ago we lived in the basement apartment of my parents house. The two older boys were 3 and 1 and I was pregnant with our third son. Our incident started one night after hubby and the boys were asleep. While watching TV something moving caught the corner of my eye on the floor by the front door where our shoes were. I got up to look but couldn't find anything (thought it was a big wolf spider). I woke up hubby and he started looking by the door and when picking up one of his shoes a mouse came flying out and ran towards the kitchen. Well, we sat a trap and caught that one but that started a month long nightmare. In the end we caugth a whopping total of 31 mice! Most were caught in the first couple of weeks. We couldn't for the life of us figure out how or why they were coming in. It turns out they were coming in from an old dryer vent hole that had been sealed up but had come unsealed at some point and made a perfect little home for all those lovely little varmits. The last incident was the scariest one for me. I was getting into my closet to get something and when I opened the door the mouse flew out and hit me in the chest then went running off somewhere in the bedroom. Talk about traumatized! I always said it was a miracle youngest son wasn't born with a tail after that fright. "grin" Lauren I am definitely feeling your pain! Years ago we lived in the basement apartment of my parents house. The two older boys were 3 and 1 and I was pregnant with our third son. Our incident started one night after hubby and the boys were asleep. While watching TV something moving caught the corner of my eye on the floor by the front door where our shoes were. I got up to look but couldn’t find anything (thought it was a big wolf spider). I woke up hubby and he started looking by the door and when picking up one of his shoes a mouse came flying out and ran towards the kitchen. Well, we sat a trap and caught that one but that started a month long nightmare. In the end we caugth a whopping total of 31 mice! Most were caught in the first couple of weeks. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out how or why they were coming in. It turns out they were coming in from an old dryer vent hole that had been sealed up but had come unsealed at some point and made a perfect little home for all those lovely little varmits. The last incident was the scariest one for me. I was getting into my closet to get something and when I opened the door the mouse flew out and hit me in the chest then went running off somewhere in the bedroom. Talk about traumatized! I always said it was a miracle youngest son wasn’t born with a tail after that fright. “grin”

]]> By: Diane Cooper http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16490 Diane Cooper Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:21:06 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16490 I just read this and giggled reading about your adventures... I too had a recent encounter- with a RAT in our room in CUBA!!!!!! We chased it around, and around all night, and they moved us the next morning... I am not normally afraid of these things, but I have to admit I was in bed with the blankets up to my chin, calling out where the rat was as my husband chased it around! I can tell you that rodents can not only climb furniture, but walls and door jambs too! THanks for the laughs! Diane I just read this and giggled reading about your adventures… I too had a recent encounter- with a RAT in our room in CUBA!!!!!! We chased it around, and around all night, and they moved us the next morning… I am not normally afraid of these things, but I have to admit I was in bed with the blankets up to my chin, calling out where the rat was as my husband chased it around! I can tell you that rodents can not only climb furniture, but walls and door jambs too!
THanks for the laughs!
Diane

]]> By: Dee http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16445 Dee Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:47:26 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16445 OMG ! I do know how you feel..... I can't stand them either...YUK! YUK! I would have been screaming too! At least, with cats in the house... you will know when there is a mouse around. Take Care... Dee OMG !
I do know how you feel….. I can’t
stand them either…YUK! YUK!
I would have been screaming too!
At least, with cats in the house…
you will know when there is a mouse around.
Take Care…
Dee

]]> By: Dibby http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16416 Dibby Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:25:58 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16416 LOL!!! I can just picture the commotion! we too have had the occasional mouse but only in spring, anyway, our computers are out in the garage & this particular week dd Jess, had been sitting at her pc & a little field mouse bit her on the toe! She was most indignant. but we got a good laugh of it! TFS LOL!!! I can just picture the commotion! we too have had the occasional mouse but only in spring, anyway, our computers are out in the garage & this particular week dd Jess, had been sitting at her pc & a little field mouse bit her on the toe! She was most indignant. but we got a good laugh of it! TFS

]]> By: Giovana http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16415 Giovana Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:25:51 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16415 Lauren, I want to say that I understand you 100%!!!!! I think we can share stories and make really great cartoon stories, LOL. Well, I just want to share my story. Last year we moved into our new brand house, everything was great until weather started to change. By November, I saw some mouse poop in one corner of the garage, I was wondering, Is it poop or just dirt? Ok, not dirt,it was mice poop!!!!! I was in shock, I hate mice!!!!!! My husband always says, they are tiny, you can kill one just stamping on it, ewwwwwwwwwwww. I went to NC to visit my sister and I talked to my husband everyday, he told me that almost everyday he found a dead mouse in the trap, AJJJJJJJJ!!!! I was in shock again, thinking, Oh mY How many are in the garage????? I came back home after 3 weeks and they vanished, I was so happy, I can't see them dead, imagine me seeing them alive, PLOP!!!!! Just 2 weeks ago, they came back!!!! On ho, somebody help me!!!!!! We have our big freezer in the garage, so anytime I am there for some groceries I check if the traps are empty, oh silly me, they are there and one of them had a dead mouse, I ran like crazy inside the house, after that I realized, hey the mouse is dead, LOL. Anyway, I hate mice, I can't even see them on TV or pictures, they are EWWW, AJJJJ . Thanks for sharing your stories, I love to read them everyday!!!! God bless you Giovana Lauren, I want to say that I understand you 100%!!!!!
I think we can share stories and make really great cartoon stories, LOL. Well, I just want to share my story. Last year we moved into our new brand house, everything was great until weather started to change. By November, I saw some mouse poop in one corner of the garage, I was wondering, Is it poop or just dirt? Ok, not dirt,it was mice poop!!!!! I was in shock, I hate mice!!!!!! My husband always says, they are tiny, you can kill one just stamping on it, ewwwwwwwwwwww. I went to NC to visit my sister and I talked to my husband everyday, he told me that almost everyday he found a dead mouse in the trap, AJJJJJJJJ!!!! I was in shock again, thinking, Oh mY How many are in the garage?????
I came back home after 3 weeks and they vanished, I was so happy, I can’t see them dead, imagine me seeing them alive, PLOP!!!!! Just 2 weeks ago, they came back!!!! On ho, somebody help me!!!!!! We have our big freezer in the garage, so anytime I am there for some groceries I check if the traps are empty, oh silly me, they are there and one of them had a dead mouse, I ran like crazy inside the house, after that I realized, hey the mouse is dead, LOL.
Anyway, I hate mice, I can’t even see them on TV or pictures, they are EWWW, AJJJJ .

Thanks for sharing your stories, I love to read them everyday!!!!
God bless you

Giovana

]]> By: Crafty Math Chick http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16403 Crafty Math Chick Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:01:38 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16403 Hi Lauren, Sorry about your "Crazy moose loose in the hoose" (I forget what cartoon that is from). It happens when you live in New England. When we lived in Massachusetts they used to get in through the roof. They the house was built, there were narrow spaces between the walls (it wasn't a single piece of wood between rooms, but something more like a double paned window). The poor little guys would be walking along the tops of those boards and trip - whoops! - and fall to their deaths in the tiny spaces between the walls in the rooms. We wouldn't notice for weeks until something didn't quite smell right, then go on a hunt for the poor little things so we could remove them and then repatch the wall we had to open. Nice huh? Luckily it mostly seemed to happen inside closets so no one noticed the patching. OH YEAH - one thing I DON'T recommend - those sticky boxes thelittle guys get stuck in! They are SO inhumane! They crawl in and get so stuck there they starve to death (unless you want to keep feeding them, but if that were the case you wouldn't use the sticky boxes to begin with right?), so THEN you have to put them out of their misery. I learned this the hard way - it was AWFUL! Hang in there, they are only coming to visit because they have heard about your talents and want to witness them for themselves. :) Hi Lauren,

Sorry about your “Crazy moose loose in the hoose” (I forget what cartoon that is from). It happens when you live in New England. When we lived in Massachusetts they used to get in through the roof. They the house was built, there were narrow spaces between the walls (it wasn’t a single piece of wood between rooms, but something more like a double paned window). The poor little guys would be walking along the tops of those boards and trip - whoops! - and fall to their deaths in the tiny spaces between the walls in the rooms. We wouldn’t notice for weeks until something didn’t quite smell right, then go on a hunt for the poor little things so we could remove them and then repatch the wall we had to open. Nice huh? Luckily it mostly seemed to happen inside closets so no one noticed the patching.

OH YEAH - one thing I DON’T recommend - those sticky boxes thelittle guys get stuck in! They are SO inhumane! They crawl in and get so stuck there they starve to death (unless you want to keep feeding them, but if that were the case you wouldn’t use the sticky boxes to begin with right?), so THEN you have to put them out of their misery. I learned this the hard way - it was AWFUL!

Hang in there, they are only coming to visit because they have heard about your talents and want to witness them for themselves. :)

]]> By: Conniecrafter http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16375 Conniecrafter Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:10:24 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16375 That was a very interesting read and had me laughing, (that is always a good thing), love your little mouse card that came out of it all, so cute! I don't know if my cats would know what to do with a mouse, that would freak me out laying next to one I know that much! That was a very interesting read and had me laughing, (that is always a good thing), love your little mouse card that came out of it all, so cute! I don’t know if my cats would know what to do with a mouse, that would freak me out laying next to one I know that much!

]]> By: Debra http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16360 Debra Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:53:33 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16360 I hate mice too and I hear ya . . I have a horrid mouse story too . . just wild stuff.. we used to live in a really old house. I guess there were lots of places they could get in because we had a whole family living with us. One day I decided to make pumpkin loaf .. I found these funny things in the flour and couldn't figure out what they were. Well, I managed to pull most of them out, and just finished with the pumpkin loaves . . hubby comes home and eats the pumpkin loaves . . .mmmm, this are good he says, did you put something special in it? Well, I started to tell him about the things I found in the flour but he just shrugs and says 'oh well, it tastes good anyway!' What do I know, I'm a city girl . . never seen a mouse never mind had one in my house! Had a cat too . . later that same night, the cat pretty much chased the mouse out of the house . . the rest of the family wasn't so eager to leave tho . . we ended up with mouse traps all over the place . . and I was absolutely horrified every time I heard one of those things go off!! Anyway, I love your castle card, it's absolutely beautiful! Hope you get all those mice soon . . I hate mice too and I hear ya . . I have a horrid mouse story too . . just wild stuff.. we used to live in a really old house. I guess there were lots of places they could get in because we had a whole family living with us. One day I decided to make pumpkin loaf .. I found these funny things in the flour and couldn’t figure out what they were. Well, I managed to pull most of them out, and just finished with the pumpkin loaves . . hubby comes home and eats the pumpkin loaves . . .mmmm, this are good he says, did you put something special in it? Well, I started to tell him about the things I found in the flour but he just shrugs and says ‘oh well, it tastes good anyway!’ What do I know, I’m a city girl . . never seen a mouse never mind had one in my house! Had a cat too . . later that same night, the cat pretty much chased the mouse out of the house . . the rest of the family wasn’t so eager to leave tho . . we ended up with mouse traps all over the place . . and I was absolutely horrified every time I heard one of those things go off!! Anyway, I love your castle card, it’s absolutely beautiful! Hope you get all those mice soon . .

]]> By: Kathy B http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16340 Kathy B Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:34:07 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16340 This story is hillarious and your daughter's drawing is marvelous! I HATE mice, and I have experienced the dog lying in front of the kitchen cabinets long after dinner was served and the kitchen cleaned up. A terrier, Schnauzer to be specific, and they were bred to be ratters back in Germany. No doubt we had "a" mouse. Well, we cannot match your 15, but we did have several. It was in winter when it got terribly cold outside. We were living in a double-wide while building our home. I hate mice...hate, hate, hate. Give me snakes, lizards, etc. anyday. I prefer reptiles to mice. So my husband and I have an agreement. I take care of the cold blooded creatures, and he handles the warm blooded ones. A marriage made in heaven! Hope you have seen the last of your mice!!! BTW, I love your cards! This story is hillarious and your daughter’s drawing is marvelous! I HATE mice, and I have experienced the dog lying in front of the kitchen cabinets long after dinner was served and the kitchen cleaned up. A terrier, Schnauzer to be specific, and they were bred to be ratters back in Germany. No doubt we had “a” mouse. Well, we cannot match your 15, but we did have several. It was in winter when it got terribly cold outside. We were living in a double-wide while building our home. I hate mice…hate, hate, hate. Give me snakes, lizards, etc. anyday. I prefer reptiles to mice. So my husband and I have an agreement. I take care of the cold blooded creatures, and he handles the warm blooded ones. A marriage made in heaven! Hope you have seen the last of your mice!!! BTW, I love your cards!

]]> By: Erica Payne http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16335 Erica Payne Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:17:51 +0000 http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/28/a-mouse-tale-long-story/#comment-16335 I am laughing so hard as I read this and I'm sure you want to here yet another mouse story. well, not really a story but my situation is this- I've caught 8 in my van..that is in the garage! I have traps under every seat. My boys fight over who gets to empty the trap. I refuse to drive it when I "know" one has recently been hanging out in there getting fat off of the cookie crumbs on the floor. I hate them so much! I am laughing so hard as I read this and I’m sure you want to here yet another mouse story. well, not really a story but my situation is this- I’ve caught 8 in my van..that is in the garage! I have traps under every seat. My boys fight over who gets to empty the trap. I refuse to drive it when I “know” one has recently been hanging out in there getting fat off of the cookie crumbs on the floor. I hate them so much!

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