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Sunday, December 05, 2004
Squeak.
Night before last, Graham and I had a visitor - a visitor of the tiny furry variety. We first noticed it as it was poking around a display of Graham's toys on a shelf close to the ground, making some of the toys clatter and scrape slightly as it walked across their feet. It was in the shadows, and at first Graham thought, with some alarm, that it was an impressively large roach. But once it scurried out into the light (and then straight under the couch) we realized it was actually a mouse, a little brown mouse with a big head and cute little beady eyes. Graham decided to try to catch it, while I suggested that one of those live traps would save a lot of frustration. For those who have not actually been here, our apartment is still a mess of boxes, and there were numerous places for a mouse to hide beyond our reach. The cat watched disinterestedly as the mouse ran out from under the couch into the maze of boxes under the table, letting the mouse run not two feet behind her while she stared off into space. Eventually it found its way into the kitchen and then the bathroom, where the only escape was the doorway. Graham tried catching it with his hands (and a pair of leather gloves), but thoughts of being bitten by vermin made him too squeamish, so he caught it under one of those disposable Ziplock containers and we escorted it outside. I wanted to keep it. :(
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