Uffda! It's Mafdet!*



Dateline: Red Wing, MN 3:30 a.m. 9/12/2012

At around 3:30 Wednesday morning all hell broke loose at the Oleson Hacienda.

Penny was awakened by major yowling with her immediate though: BAT! But worried about the resident yowler, in one very smooth move that even wonder woman would've been proud of, Penny flipped on the lamp, smashed glasses to her bleary face and stood right up into her house shoes.

Penny quickly located Sassy, the great mouser, desperately trying to retrieve something under the dresser. Scanning the floor, Penny noticed the mouse trap next to the dresser placed there about 2 weeks ago:. GONE!

Being somewhat brilliant even at that early hour, Penny left the room to get the "mouse trap retrieving gear": gardening gloves and small trash bag. She moved the dresser very carefully and AH HAH! One dead rodent! Based on the positioning of the trapped rodent, it is unclear whether the Yowler chased the little bugger into the bedroom and it tripped over the trap or just heard the trap snap.

Quickly scooping up the trap before the resident mouser could snare it, Penny properly disposed of said rodent in the bag, reset the trap, moved the dresser back in place and then marched outside to the trash can. Yes, with with bed hair, skewed glasses and fully outfitted in sleepwear, lime green gardening gloves and white house shoes. 

Inside the house, the resdient mouse was extremely upset, tail swishing wickedly and constantly muttering as she paced from the bedroom, to the quilting room, to the kitchen and back.  Ever vigilant, she stalked the entire downstairs (upstairs is closed off to her), peering at any hidden trap spots, jumping onto furniture to better sniff around, finally settling down on the cutting table in the quilting room having decided it is the best perch for now. Like a mini-sphinx amongst the cutting boards, her eyes shifting slowly left to right, scanning the perimeter of the rooms, the now silent yowler kept watch as Penny settled back down for a new more hours of sleep.

Let this be a "Cat"-ionary tale to all stray rodents trying to infiltrate the Oleson Hacidena: BEWARE of resident Mouser aka "Yowler" and temptation in the form of peanut butter with one delicately placed cat nibble.

All is well.  I'll keep watch while you sleep.  G'night.