mouse

When I got home from the lake I was actually locked out of the house… (logistics on Friday when I left were a bit confusing) not a problem other than Ute who had just moved out but still had a key left on Sunday for a week of eye surgery at the northern part of the lake and Natasha who moved in over the weekend was at work and I didn’t have her number yet…but as we drove up Estelle was coming out of the hospital and I got the number I needed…got the key and the information that there was a mouse in the bottom of the cupboard…shut with a chair so it wouldn’t get out. Ok. Send Miriam on her way to Lilongwe…had forgotten about the mouse until I went into the kitchen and saw the chair against the cupboard door. Hmm…so I peeked—first one side, nothing…then the other and it was sitting there staring at me. We had a little staring contest and he was kind of cute…but then I didn’t want him in my food cupboard…didn’t really know what to do so I called james—no answer. Tried reinette—same thing. Then Wilfred our gardener arrived. I told him about the mouse and he came up to help me. We took out the stuff on the floor piece by piece and checked it all for the mouse and then found him in the bag of ground nuts (peanuts)…then Wilfred took care of it…it was a dead mouse when it left and I hope it was the only one…