Mice

 This fall has been very bad for mice. 

 In fact, in the 12 years that we have lived at the cottage, it is the worst.  They can get into everything.  One cottager has them nest and destroy an oven.  Another nested in the air intact of a snowmobile and was sucked into the engine (replace the piston!)

The best way to partially solve the problem is to set up a 5 gallon bucket, with a wire through a pop can with peanut butter on the can. Put plumbers antifreeze in the bucket, maybe 2 inches.  Make a ramp up to the top of the bucket.  The mice quickly drown.  In the cold of the winter the antifreeze will freeze, but it does not expand.   And no smell when you return next spring.

One cottager

got 19 mice over  weekend.