I’m fine.

I’m really not. No one is.

live mouse traps on my basement cam

We now have a mouse problem in the house. It’s driving me nuts as trap after trap keeps catching them. I’m using live traps. I have motion notifying cams aimed at them. I get a phone notification alert that a mouse has been caught. I try to release them ASAP but sometimes they escape before I can get them out of the house. I drive them to the middle of a cornfield about a mile away.

This house we just moved into has a crawl space and a small basement. I have four mouse traps. I have two in the basement and two in the living areas. All the captures so far have been in the basement. The weirdest thing is I’ve only ever seen one mouse at a time. I’ve sealed up all the holes I can see in the foundation but I can’t get back in that crawl space. For all I know there is an entire colony in there.

I never hear them.

I never see them.

I never smell them.

The cat though, he knows something is still there. If not for him I may have never even known about them at all. He had been trying to tell us for weeks it seems.

This latest wrench in my life all started about a week ago. I opened the cabinet doors under the kitchen sink and saw all kinds of “sign.” What a fucking mess. I sealed up all the points of entry around the pipes with Great…