The weeks are passing way too fast for my old bones Red. The Raspberries are all but done so Ma Bender has time to pick the Strawberries and made 6 pints of jam yesterday after giving away most of the earlier ones to FRiends. We do have sliced berries with whipped cream several night a week plus the ones we eat fresh in the garden. I pulled a few more Shallots and laid them on some wire to dry and also put some more Garlic into storage after letting it dry in the green house.
I did have a diversion this week when several very small mice invaded our pantry/laundry room and started doing lots of damage to packaged foods. I had very limited success with the wooden Victor traps with the standard metal trigger and the newer ones with yellow plastic trigger. These little boogers would lick the peanut butter or cheese off without setting the trap off and I only caught 4 in 3 days but I knew there were more so off to the Ace yesterday to see what was new. I purchased 4 of those sticky pads, 4 more victors with the metal trigger and 2 of the new Ortho Press n Set units. These have a little well for the bait and then you just press one end and the trap is set. I caught nothing in the sticky traps, nothing in the 6 Victor traps but killed 4 mice in 10 hours with the Ortho without replacing the peanut butter bait and all the other traps had the bait taken without triggering one of them...
