Mouse In The House

I found this fall to be a quite interesting one as I found myself to be living with mice.  (SICK!!) Being a city girl, I HATEE mice.  They are disgusting little creatures that creep around everywhere and FREAK ME OUT! (Kind of like snakes)  

One evening, I had brought home a Papa Murphy's pizza to make for supper.  I got home, turned the oven on, and put the pizza in the oven on a timer for 15 min. or so.  This next 20 minutes was probably one of the most disgusting and freaky moments of my life!!

  Logan and I were in the kitchen when all of a sudden Logan sees something run across the floor.  A mouse.  (Yuck!)  This mouse was not just any old mouse...he was a mouse that wanted to play!  He ran out from underneath the oven and over to the entry and hid in the midst of all of the shoes.  Logan quickly got a scoop shovel and told his hired man, Kevin, to come help him with this situation.  While Logan was getting his shovel, the mouse had ran behind the washer and dryer.  He was cornered.  Kevin is on one side of the washer and dryer with his shoes in his hands waiting for him to come out.  Logan is on the other side of the washer and dryer with his scoop shovel waiting for him to come out.  And I am standing on a chair in the middle of the kitchen waiting for him to come out.  The mouse really wanted to play...he kept poking his head out from one side to see if he could sneak out, but he realized that he was surrounded with "weapons".  (If thats what you call a shoe, a scoop shovel, and a girl standing on a chair.)  

Kevin finds a dog toy and throws it behind the washer to get the mouse to come out....and he sure did.  I am standing on the chair screaming while Kevin is throwing his shoe and Logan is banging the shovel around.  Well, the mouse got away from them and went down the hallway and into the bathroom.  Kevin quickly closes the door behind the mouse.  (Meanwhile, remember the pizza is still cooking.)  Now the mouse is stuck in the bathroom.  So Logan sneaks into the bathroom with his shovel and is going to get the mouse out and kill him with the shovel.  Me, knowing all about mice, suggest they put a towel under the door so the mouse can't get out.  (Good idea farm girl Megan!!) All we hear is Logan complaining because the mouse is behind the toilet and he cant get him out.  So Kevin goes into the bathroom as the mouse killer assistant.  Kevin gets the mouse out from behind the toilet and all I can hear is a big bang.  Lookie there--the mouse is no longer with us.  So they scoop the mouse up and haul it outside to the burn barrel. 

Now, you would think that this would be the end to the story, but ohhh are you wrong.  Not around this place!!

So as the boys are trying to kill the mouse, I take the pizza out of the oven and shut it off.  Once the boys have conquered playing hide and go seek with the mouse, they come out of the bathroom and we are all standing in the kitchen laughing about what had just happened.  All of a sudden, we hear this noise that sounded like something was going to blow up...zzzzzzzzzz.  And we all look over at the oven to see a blast of white light shining out from the window of the oven.  Kevin goes over to the oven, Logan kind of just stands there, and I am running for the door. (I thought the oven was going to blow up!!)  Turns out, a coil in the oven had shorted or something and pretty much scared the daylights out of me.  Ohh, and it destroyed the oven.  You open the oven door and it looks like it has been charcoaled as it is all white and does NOT work.  

So now, I find myself using a little toaster oven to make everything in-- which is NOT COOL because a 9x13 pan does not fit in there.  Just imagine yourself NEVER being able to make something in a 9x13 pan. If you have an oven that works...consider yourself lucky!!

Here is my charcoaled oven that doesn't work.  You can kind of see that the racks are white....It really is terrible!  Especially since I saw my life flash before me in those few moments I thought the thing was going to blow up.

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of us in action trying to get the mouse.  I wish I did, especially to show all of you, because it really was hilarious as it was 3 to 1 against the mouse!

Farm Girl Tip # 12: If you live with mice, just stand on a chair in the middle of the floor because the mouse will die.  

Farm Girl Tip # 13: If you bake a pizza in an oven, BE CAREFUL! You never know when the oven will turn against you.