{"id":2062,"date":"2016-10-22T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisasart.com\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:43:09","slug":"flies-spiders-mice-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisasart.com\/blog\/flies-spiders-mice-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Flies, Spiders, and Mice, OH MY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Hallo October<\/p>\n

“Flies, Spiders and Mice, Oh MY”<\/p>\n

There are lots of people decorating for Halloween. \u00a0Bushes are covered with stretchy fake webbing, and lighted ghosts and goblins are on lawns. \u00a0This is all in anticipation of Trick-or-Treaters coming by for something sweet.<\/p>\n

Yet in any house, at any time, one can find unwanted\u00a0visitors; \u00a0Flies, Spiders or maybe\u00a0a mouse!<\/p>\n

I \u00a0do really like animals. \u00a0But I don’t like some these\u00a0creatures\u00a0in my home. \u00a0Actually, I’m okay\u00a0with a few spiders in the basement. \u00a0They eat the insects that I don’t want in my house.<\/p>\n

I try to be\u00a0creative and caring about nature.\u00a0I approach getting them out of my home in some quirky and odd ways.
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\nIn fact, just before I wrote this I was folding laundry in my bedroom when a small spider was suddenly there, dangling in front of me. \u00a0Unlike Miss Muffet in the rhyme\u00a0I did not run away.<\/p>\n

Here are some things I do to get rid of these critters….<\/p>\n

With the spider I grabbed a large plastic container… one I got\u00a0from a chinese restaurant when we ordered soup- reusing it –\u00a0and scoop spider up into the container. \u00a0They are not too difficult to get into the container.With it in the container I then went outside and shook it off\u00a0into the bushes. \u00a0All was well again.<\/p>\n

With flies: I don’t want to expend my energy trying to race around after something so small that can hide anywhere \u00a0and try to splat it with a fly swatter.\u00a0\u00a0I instead open a couple of\u00a0windows wide, one in the kitchen and one in living room. \u00a0I close the bedroom and bathroom doors and wait. \u00a0Well
\nactually I go back to what I was doing before the fly was noticed. \u00a0 It will inevitably land on the screen to try and get out of the house. \u00a0Then I quickly close the window and\u00a0trap it in the window. Next the\u00a0tricky part, I open a window a little and\u00a0push up the screen and close the window. Eventually the fly goes outside, and all is well again.\u00a0It works…. \u00a0Not instantly, but it is a lot easier than chasing it around the house.<\/p>\n

Then there is a mouse. \u00a0hmmm, a mouse. \u00a0We haven’t had many, but we have had one or two here and there. \u00a0 The mouse is entering dangerous territory when it comes into the house. \u00a0\u00a0We don’t mess around\u00a0with them. \u00a0\u00a0I will admit here they have this ability to actually spook me… especially at 4 in the morning\u00a0when I’m not really awake yet \u00a0and\u00a0finishing going to the bathroom.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve had one literally zip by me within inches of my feet, to escape the human (me)\u00a0in the night. \u00a0I can’t help but think about this. \u00a0I wonder why the mouse didn’t just stay hidden until I shut the light,\u00a0left the bathroom and went\u00a0back to bed. \u00a0 But the mouse panicked and ran past me. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I guess you could think of that as brave too…. or maybe too brave, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Me, I ended up letting out a scream and started shaking because I was spooked. \u00a0That spelled the beginning of the end for that mouse.<\/p>\n

We had a mouse in the house just a week or so ago. \u00a0And I will tell you it was rather brazen.
\nMy husband told me he was watching TV when it went across the floor. In front of the TV,\u00a0when the lights were\u00a0on,\u00a0people awake and around. \u00a0It looked right at him. \u00a0Froze. \u00a0When he moved the mouse zipped away. \u00a0\u00a0What was it thinking…that it wouldn’t be seen?<\/p>\n

I came out of the bedroom when he told me. A little while later, when I was standing in the livingroom it zipped by me. \u00a0 \u00a0I must say I’ve never seen anything move so fast as a mouse in the way it does. \u00a0In a moment its there, then its gone. \u00a0\u00a0Spooky! \u00a0\u00a0Another evening it zipped under my chair at the table while I was on the laptop computer. \u00a0 \u00a0We had traps around in the kitchen and the living room. \u00a0My husband\u00a0had put peanut butter in them, saying that mice like it. \u00a0 \u00a0We had our neighbors cat come in for a time. \u00a0No sign of the mouse then. \u00a0\u00a0I do wish I wasn’t allergic to cats, because If I wasn’t\u00a0I’d have one.<\/p>\n

Another evening my youngest daughter and I were sitting on the couch. She didn’t see it , but I did. It did seem a little more intelligent. \u00a0It tried going by the other side of the table\u00a0in hope that the obstacle would prevent me from seeing it. \u00a0But I didn’t miss a beat on that one. \u00a0I\u00a0saw it. \u00a0I yelled out “Noooo”. \u00a0Not that that helped. It ran and hid.<\/p>\n

One of our neighbors mentioned some don’t like peanut butter. \u00a0My husband put cheese in the traps. \u00a0Next day, mouse was caught. \u00a0\u00a0You might say here:\u00a0“When all else fails. \u00a0Cheese.”<\/p>\n

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