Midnight Visitor

Wednesday night I was sound asleep when I woke up to the sounds of crinkling plastic at about 4 am. I laid in bed trying to figure out where it was coming from and trying to wake up too. I finally figured out it was coming from my desk next to the bed. I wasn't quite awake, my first thought was someone was in my room going through my things on the desk. Then as the fog in my head cleared, I realized it was probably a mouse, trying to raid my candy stash. I quickly grabbed my flashlight and tried to catch him in the act. Well I'm pretty much blind without my glasses, so I was not able to see the little guy. But, I did hear him scurry down the side of the desk.

After that I laid in bed, awake, waiting for him to come back. He didn't return and I eventually fell asleep again. And, this was one night that I did not have to get up to go to the bathroom. The mouse interrupted what could have been a good night of sleep.

The next morning I was telling my story in the office and the guys next door said I must have chased the mouse into their area. Aaron said he was woke up by some scratching noise around 4:30. When he woke up he was looking right into the mouse's face on his night stand. If it's not the same one, then we may have a family taking up residence.

Yesterday, we picked up four mouse traps, I'm not sharing my candy with a mouse. We set them out last night, using peanut butter for bait. The bait worked, but the traps did not. That little guy cleaned the peanut butter off of three of the four traps. He was either stuffed and headed back to his nest for a nap or he just didn't find the fourth trap. Mouse 1, Air Force engineers 0. Round 2 is tonight.

We got some more peanut butter and added a raisin to the meal and we adjusted the traps. They've been out all day and no action yet, he must still be digesting his last meal. Maybe tonight I'll wake up to the snapping sound of the trap.

No pictures today, the internet connection keeps failing on the upload. I'll have to try next time, maybe I'll have some pictures of my new friend/roommate.