Wonderful whirrling weekend at the Wheelwrights'

So this weekend was a whirlwind of excitement and edge of your seat anticipation as we were determined to catch the small four legged creatures that roam the night in the nether reaches of the house... Yes folks, we are talking about MICE! Ever since our recluse neighbor Tom, (I use the term recluse only in the sense that but only one person on our block has been in his house, other than that he is more than willing to tell you all the dirt, or percieved dirt that is), had to move all the "hording" crap he had piled up against the side of our house because we were having trees cut down, and since that fateful day, we have been waging war against the squeaky little ones that strike fear into the very souls of the strongest amongst us. We, as you may or may not know do not eat nor kill living creatures, so the problem was; "what can we do to rid ourselves of our unwanted house guests and still maintain our moral bearing?" The solution seemed obviouse (after a half an hour search at the local home improvement warehouse that is), yes, live catch traps. Seemed perfect, you lure them into a tunnel and the weight of the mouse pivots the trap and....WHALLAH! the mouse is trapped inside, unharmed. This worked for a while and though we caught about 12 mice this way, there were those recon mice that were too smart for the tunnel. Back to the drawing board. Glue traps were the next method, because anyone who paid any attention in chemistry class knows that common household oils breaks down the properties of the glue, so this weekend we caught the recon mice.........SIX OF THEM! Yes folks, you heard (or should I say read it right, six) We now have six extra-virgin olive oil covered mice roaming the back alley of our neighborhood. The kicker in all of this was that after we caught Mum and Daddy, we caught two at a time....Twice. I think we are done with the little freeloaders as we have not seen the flashing black blurrs running across the wall as we have so many times before. I guess next we get a cat...................