Carnage (photo-less, don't worry!)

Quite a bloody scene in the kitchen this morning. Jean and I have been running an anti-mouse campaign this week (please don't mention this to our houseguests who are arriving tonight!) and last night saw the first victim. Catching mice is harder than one might think! Our first strategies, i.e. humane traps, then regular spring traps with, in order, cheese, bread, then large pieces of bread, yielded nothing. Though the bait was always gone by morning, mind you. So last night we tried peanut butter, thinking that it would be less portable, requiring the mouse to sit and eat it in place, thereby increasing the likelihood of snaring him. We'd laid six traps across the various surfaces of the kitchen and thank god it was the one on the tile floor that snapped. Splash!