Double feature: Mice with knives...

MICE

well the other day I heard some "sckritching" yes thats right, I herd a sckritch... its the sound a mouse or other small mammal makes (babies are included sometimes...) any way I though I was crazy the first time then I heard it again in another spot... now I was getting a bit freaked out. I walked over to where the nose was and found a disguarded popcorn bag from a viewing of "24" after asking Jordan if he knew what it was i saw the culprit. It was a cute little vole. big ears, whiskers little pot belly. The works, I instantly started cooing with delight like when Miss Suzie gets to hold and especially fat baby. I found a mouse trap pretty quickly and discussed our options with Jordan. I didn't think jord would tollerate it so I though we'd best get down to buisness. After a bit of discussion we decited that it wasn't really bothering either of us. This is when I remembered a design for a live trap.




This is about how ours works, except We're using a skipole and a toilet paper tube. I saw where they come into the house so I just put the bottom of the ramp right there. I caught one yesterday a red mouse, let him go, two more yesterday brown ones, jord was petting one and it jumped out of his hands but I think we've got him back as their's two in there again.


Mack (the knife)

I used to work in a knife store so I know about lots of different brands and what's good and whats junk. After needing a knife one too many times and not having one I decided to just get the one I've always wanted. without getting into artiasan/hand made knives Benchmade is as good as it gets. check this out:



I've always though this was one of their best looking folders. I think I had one in high school but lost it, hopefully this one does better.



In other news I went fly fishing for the first time today, Jordan did pretty well but I didn't catch anything, that's OK it was good shoulder rehab (yeah I hurt my shoulder on our memorial day hike... sledding of all things believe it or not...)

also as we were driving home today there was a huge smoke header coming up from right around our neighborhood, We were all pretty worried at one point that I might be coming from somewhere on our the Humphrey estate but It wasn't. Jordan tried to call the house but no one answered, that freaked us out a but. Turns out they were in town and no one was home anyway.