On the weekends when we have dinner together we catch up on what everyone did that day, I sleep of course but I have been having rodent adventures lately. I had some have a heart catch and release traps but after releasing my 5th mouse I was starting to suspect that they just keep finding their way back to the house, so I upped the ante and got some instant kill traps. I was sleeping and when I woke up around 10 am I heard scurrying above my head so I set some traps in the attic. I saw no evidence of any mice up there but I could hear them and it was a different sound that that of the snow melting and sliding off the roof, which dies sound a bit similar. Icicles falling off and sliding sounds exactly like mice in the walls. So traps have ben set and in the basement I got two more in the new traps. I’ve found that the Tomcat ones are the most effective. The Tomcat Mouse Snap Traps are the easiest to set and have been the only ones to actually catch mice. I put a link to them on Amazon below in case anyone else is having unwanted guests during this freezing weather.
The kids were busy today making art. Andy had his OutSchool class in creating clay models. This time he made a Yeti with an ice cream sundae and a stack of snowballs. He’s made a bunch of snow related animals in this class.
When I sat down to eat Eva was furiously scribbling with a pen. I asked what she was doing and she was sketching something. Then she showed me this beautiful sketch that she made. I asked how she learned this and she said that she copied it from something. she may have started that way but she was not looking at anything when she was working on this at the table. So, she may have been inspired by something but that art is all her. I’m very impressed.