Wireless mouse

[delphipsmith]

So it's still snowing here (ugh) but Mr Psmith and I were amused the other morning to wake up and see that the nasty weather hasn't stopped the mice in the neighborhood from venturing out on their daily rounds. I can only imagine what their sub-surface tunnels must look like, and how annoying it must be when the walls start to melt!

View from our front porch:



Close-up of the plunge into the snowbank:

Comments

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

Many years ago, in the fall, I put down some black plastic sheeting in my front yard and covered it with leaves in order to eradicate the grass so that I could plant native plants the following spring. That winter, we had a heavy snowstorm, with about a foot of really wet, heavy snow and ice. When spring came around and it was time to pull up the plastic and start planting, I was horrified by what I discovered. Mice had made tunnels under the snow, but also under the sheering. The snow had been so heavy that it had squashed all the mice. As I rolled up the sheeting, it had all these little dead, squashed bodies sticking to it. There must have been a hundred of them. (It was a large area and they were densely packed.) After that, I decided to kill off the grass with layers of newspaper followed by leaves. It decomposes on its own so that I don't have to roll it up and contend with a horror scene in my garden.

Buy yes, the mice are all under there, under all that snow, like a bunch of furry little wights from beyond The Wall....

[toblass.livejournal.com]

What a ghastly scene, Mimi! I can't even begin to imagine. :(

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

I was cringing and screaming as I rolled up and disposed of the sheeting. This undoubtedly went a long way towards establishing my reputation of being odd amongst my neighbors.

[delphipsmith]

Oh that's awful!! I have to say that seeing these tracks has given me second thoughts about using the snowblower :/

[droxy.livejournal.com]

oh that's sad.