Things you think we'd know better than

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So we've had this summer house in Gloucester for 25 years now, and every fall we shut it down for the winter. It's become something of a routine.

Perhaps a bit too much so. A couple of weeks ago jwg started to put on his gardening shoes and was puzzled to discover several brazilnuts in one of them. Further exploration found a few more brazilnuts scattered about the kitchen, and an empty plastic bag. We had actually left a flimsy non-ziploc bag of nuts in the kitchen. It's not like we didn't know that mice moved in during the winter/early spring.

Then yesterday, since we'd gotten the water turned on, we also plugged in the main fuse, and I went to take out the pieces of newspaper that were keeping the refrigerator door ajar, and discovered that on one shelf of the refrigerator were 5 small cans of V-8 juice (which had somehow survived), a plastic bottle of Diet Coke (left by a guest -- this had also survived), and a six-pack of glass bottle of quinine water, which had not. There was also scattered mouse shit on this shelf.

We looked at each other and wondered how we could possibly have left this stuff in the refrigerator when we closed up last fall.

Comments

Quinine showers for mice

[(Anonymous)]

I have a mental image of the mice sitting around in the fridge wondering where to hide their brazil nuts, and suddenly SMASH! the bottle of tonic water shatters and they get a quinine shower. One thing for sure: none of those mice will get malaria this year.

Chris
http://www.hansenhome.demon.co.uk