Country living...the unpleasant side...

First off, let me say that I LOVE living in the country...I think I have portrayed this feeling through all of my posts. However, just like everything else in this life there is some unpleasantries. This is harvest season. When you harvest acres and acres of corn, the wildlife that has been living in the field has to go somewhere. I speak specifically of mice. And anyone who has ever lived in the country for any length of time will tell you that you will have mice in the house on occasion, especially during harvest. I knew this. I was just not prepared as to how many there would actually be. We set traps when we started to notice that there seemed to be quite a few. Well, let me back up and say that we have tried every other way to catch/kill mice. We have tried poison, they just curl up in a dark corner and die and leave their wonderful scent behind. We have tried glue traps, not real effective when they chew through the trap to free themselves. We tried the enclosed traps, so that you do not see the mouse that you have just killed, but our mice are smarter than that, they somehow set off the traps, licked all the peanut butter out and left us to find the empty traps later...and now they won't even set, so I think they sabotaged the traps . So we decided to go back to the good old fashioned wood & metal spring-loaded mousetrap. We set several. Lets just say, you can't remake the mousetrap. It cannot be improved upon. It works perfectly! We caught...um...an undisclosed amount of mice in 24 hours time. More than I feel comfortable sharing with you. I will say that our mouse problem is now contained and under control! Yes, mice were harmed, and no, I really don't care...they chewed through my box of recipes and that is crossing the line.