Not a creature was stirring...

...not even a mouse? Well, that part of the old "Night Before Christmas" story ain't true at my house! Just before my Thanksgiving vacation my Poodles informed me there was a mouse in the gas fireplace. Ugh! Slapped down a sticky trap and got the sucker first night. Next night the Poodles still kept whining at the fireplace. I was pretty sure it wasn't a mouse ghost, so put down another trap and snagged that mouse too! Just to be on the safe side, I put down a sticky trap in the fireplace during the week I was on vacation to Kentucky to spend Thanksgiving with family. Came home and there were mouse droppings on my darned sticky trap! Grrrr! I went to the laundry room later and there was a darned mouse in my clean laundry basket...ack! (Will wash all those in ultra-hot water later on). Set a sticky trap in there too! A short while ago the Poodles ran over to the fireplace, sure enough...got me a Mickey on that trap. I'm a little squeemish about the mice on the sticky trap, and I have to wait 'till they're dead to scoop 'em into a trash bag. So, for tonite, I get to hear the squeeks of the trapped mouse. I'll just turn the volume up on the TV. Ewwwww! How many more?!