Rodent action

Following the mouse alert at reference 1, BH found a well gnawed parsnip in her vegetable bin in the garage this morning - the garage generally being a better place to keep vegetables because it is cooler than the house and the bin is easy enough to protect from the frost.

So dug out the traps, brushed them off and left them out to air them a bit, before deploying two of the small ones this evening.

Reference 2 tells us that both sorts were deployed way back in 2007 and I have a feeling that the small ones have been used since then. I also wonder about the time of year, as I have another feeling that mice are generally a late autumn or winter problem, rather than a Spring problem.

32 bricks moved this morning, four groups of eight, the equivalent of perhaps 4.3km. It is getting easier and pleasanter - to the point where I keep making mistakes with the bricks. Moving them down when I am on the up leg, or vice-versa. Forgetting to move one altogether. All kinds of silly errors, which probably mean the count is only right to plus or minus two or so.

PS: it also took me about half a dozen goes to get the file name of reference 2 right. The last of several hurdles was noticing that I had misspelt animals in the original post.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/03/mouse-revisited.html.

Reference 2: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2007/12/small-amimals.html.