A Better Mouse Trap
As you may be aware from a prior entry we have been having mouse issues. It's been an ongoing saga. One which I have been determined to win. I had been attempting to catch him on another sticky trap, but he had gotten wise to my ways and would not fall for that trick like his little friend we caught earlier. My dream was to take him deep in the back yard with my Taylor Made Driver while it was still trapped on the sticky trap. I wanted to catch it on video. Vangie thinks I'm disturbed. Perhaps, but I can't let the mice win! It's gotten personal.I set up the neck snapping steel traps in strategic locations but the bugger was able to eat the peanut butter right off the trap without getting it's neck snapped. I tried leaving poison out in key areas as well but this critter is no ordinary mouse. This was a super mouse, a mouse which thwarted me at every turn. A mouse with worldly knowledge. This was clearly not this mouse's first time at the rodeo.
It became apparent to me I was going to have to get creative on the little bugger. I was going to have to show him something he had never seen before. I was going to have to build a better mouse trap.
I gathered the following material:
1) A full box of wine
2) 3 1x3 pieces of lumber approximately 2 and 1/2 feet in length
3) lots of water
4) Tylenol lots of Tylenol
5) Two round plastic tuperware lids
6) Peanut butter
I then put my plan into action:
Step one: Drink entire box of wine and think about how much you hate mice. (I recommend you do not drink the entire box at one time)
Step Two: Drink water and take tylenol
Step Three: take a nap you will likely need one at this point in time if you have not passed out already from all the wine, dream about dead mice
Step Four: Wake up and take more tylenol
Step five: Fill the buckets with water 3/4 of the way up
Step Six: Place one end of a board on the empty box of wine creating a ramp to the side of the box.
Step Seven: Place another board from the box to a bucket of water
Step Eight: Place another board from the box to the second bucket of water
Step Nine: Put the peanut butter on the tupperware lids
Step ten: Float the lids in the buckets on the water
Step Twelve: hide somewhere you think the most can't see you and wait quietly, imagine dead wet mice! Do your best evil scientist wicked laugh!
Your trap should look like this when complete:
The following is a close up of the bucket with the peanut butter floating on the surface. Calling to the wicked mouse. The evil mouse who has been tormenting your psyche for weeks, playing games with your mind and terrifying your family. The mouse who soon will meet its end as its greedy little fingers reach for the peanut butter. But its just out of his reach, perhaps if he gets a little closer he will be able to get a taste, maybe..........
Or maybe not, with any luck the mouse will soon discover he can not swim and you will be enjoying the spoils of victory!
A bucket full of wet dead mouse!
posted by The Pants @ 12:56 PM
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This is a before the plunge picture, in the background is the river. What you can't see is the lovely cement beach calling to me. 
I got in a little higher than my waist when the crowd I was with came to a halt and people started running back for the shore. I bent my knees ducked my head under the water and quickly ran out where a towel and blanket was waiting for me. Yeah I'm in the picture above you just gotta look close.
