tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857155142453175861.post3525907574007234919..comments2023-10-28T03:18:08.256-06:00Comments on Do Not Shoot Your Meatloaf: autumnErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13585535278357090172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857155142453175861.post-57323148354743500372009-09-26T07:47:36.530-06:002009-09-26T07:47:36.530-06:00"I look forward to her days off like I used t..."I look forward to her days off like I used to look forward to getting laid."<br /><br />That cracked me up. As have your comments on my blog this week. Thanks for that. <br /><br />I also really loved the detail about Emily at your grandpa's funeral. You seem to have a way of picking out the few things that say the most about a person.Terronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737715891767920516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857155142453175861.post-58692489594429949612009-09-25T21:36:43.020-06:002009-09-25T21:36:43.020-06:00Ok...in my experience the old school traps do not ...Ok...in my experience the old school traps do not work, the mice just lick the peanut butter off and wander off fat and happy.<br />Poison is a no-go, too risky, you want the little dead bodies where you can get at them, not rotting away inside your walls...or inside your dog.<br />There are the sticky traps, but then you still have to take the little fucker out and kill it, or throw it away to die slowly. Even a mouse deserves better.<br />I prefer a .22 short. The shot is quiet enough that no one outside will hear it, but plenty powerful to kill a mouse.<br />Just kidding.<br />We're lucky not to have mice in the cafe, but at one place I worked they were all over. Being a man, I left the lid up on the toilet one night and came in the next morning to find one of the little bastards drowned in the bowl. They get thirsty, climb in and slide to their deaths. <br />This happened several times, so maybe you could replicate it by just leaving a steep sided bowl of water in a cabinet...you'll need to leave something they can climb. I can't remember, but I think they used to climb the toilet brush handle.<br />Otherwise, check where your water lines come up from the crawl space. If there is any opening there at all seal it up. <br />I had mice crawling up my PVC water lines into my house and then chewing holes in the vinyl lines above floor level. <br />I sealed the holes around where the lines came through the floor with that insulation foam stuff that comes in spray cans and the mice have never been back.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13585535278357090172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857155142453175861.post-23124461811968505252009-09-25T19:48:48.878-06:002009-09-25T19:48:48.878-06:00I loved this one. So much. And I had never seen th...I loved this one. So much. And I had never seen that video of Natalie Portman! I have her haircut, but I can't rap. I just leaned back in my chair and laughed. <br /><br />Hey, how do you handle mice in your cafe? Marisol, one of the secretaries at my office, told me to buy mint leaves. She said that mice hate mint. <br /><br />Bing killed a mouse with a baseball bat this morning. We were saying goodbye in the kitchen and both heard a rustling in the kitchen drawer. We opened it and this little mouse was just sitting there with it's cheeks bulging with raisins from my box that it had gnawed into. It just SAT there, dumb as a doorknob. Bing went and grabbed her baseball bat and then suddenly the mouse decided to come leaping out of the drawer, causing me to scream, the dog to RUN AWAY and Bing chased it around the kitchen and actually beaned the sucker with her bat. I almost threw up but managed to call her my mouse slayer. So...hey, big cafe guy...any ideas?Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049511202014141182noreply@blogger.com