More on the Mouse

[skyring]

Walked into the kitchen - I'm chain-drinking coffee/tea in this enormous Microsoft mug at the moment - and spotted some mouse action in a corner of the bench. It seemed to be hiding under the electric griller.

I didn't go anywhere near it until I'd covered up all of the hotplate coils with saucepan lids and constructed a barricade along the edge of the sink. And made a trap out of an empty cardboard box temptingly dark.

And then I startd disassembling the griller and putting the bits on the floor.

Took off the glass lid OK.

Lifted up the body of the thing and there was the mouse hiding in the base. Suddenly exposed, it made a dash for freedom while I had the heavy main body in my hands, avoided my cardboard box and got stuck in the barricade - an old glass beer jug.

I cleared away the griller and tried to capture the mouse, but it evaded me again, evaded my cardboard box and lost itself in the rubble at the far end of the bench.

Still, it was now a long way from freedom or at least refuge in the oven and my rows of defences were intact.

I gradually cleared away the stuff at that end of the bench - biscuit tin, old chocolate tin, mesh bag of mandarins and so on, and then I spotted a mouse tail sticking out from between the apples in the fruit bowl.

Opened the door, picked up the fruitbowl, walked out, closed the door, set the bowl down near Kerri's flower garden and began removing pieces of fruit.

Eventually, there was just this big ole bowl and a very plump and prosperous mouse, trying to climb the steep ceramic sides.

Heh.

And then with a final urge, it scrabbled up the slope, leapt into the flowers, and was gone, a brown little body against the earth and shadows under the leaves.

Perhaps I should have gone for my camera at some stage, but I was afraid that if I took my eye off it for a moment, it would have escaped.

Comments

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

LOL. I'll have to remember that one myself.