Omigod....

I opened the door to the laundry room for the first time in 2 days, and phew...smelled AWFUL. I opened the washing machine and sniffed the laundry. Couldn't really tell if it had mildewed or not, but thought, well...it's been in there for a couple of days, so I put more detergent in and restarted the load.

Opened it again a few minutes later to throw away something, and happened to catch a glimpse of the mouse trap I set about two weeks ago. Yep - carcass ensnared. Gag... Eric got to retrieve that one!

This is mousie number two in two months. Wonder how many MORE there are? I hate to kill the little squeakers, but I guess I'll go get some more traps and rebait. I KNOW that they're coming through the laundry room/dungeon area, though. Been finding little bitty turds, and the downstairs storage closet/makeshift pantry was where I trapped the first one.

After I killed the first one, I left Eric a message at work telling him that we caught the critter. I rambled on for a bit and said that it was cute, and that I was sorry I had to kill it. He thought it was so funny that he's been playing it for his friends at work. Glad I could be of some entertainment!