A New Friend

This past weekend we had a couple showings for our house. So on Saturday night after my 2 hour praise team practise for church we headed out to grab some dinner and a movie while the house was being shown. While we were eating Dan looked up what was showing at the drive in, we had gone with friends last summer but have not yet made it this summer. We were excited to learn that the movie we were going to go see was playing that night. So we headed back to our house to grab blankets and chairs in case we wanted to sit outside. I also wanted to change into jeans, grab a sweatshirt, and get different shoes.

As I was in the bathroom I heard something from under the sink. Puzzled I thought it might be a mouse or maybe I was hearing things. So I pulled out our trash can and didn't see anything. I had put my hand in the trash can to move some trash when out of the bottom came a little grey mouse! I screamed at the top of my lungs, being quite taken off guard. Dan came running (his heart pounding and thinking I had found a dead body or someone was in the house) and saw the mouse but didn't have any way of catching it before it ran back into the hole around our water pipe.

As there was nothing we could do about it we changed, packed up, and went to the drive in. We watched The Dark Knight Rises (our second time) and then saw The Campaign (the one we were going to see anyways). But as it has to be dark to watch a movie at a drive in things didn't get started till after 9pm...so we didn't get home till about 2:45am. When we got home I grabbed a new Wal-Mart bag to put in the trash can in the bathroom (we had removed the other one so as to discourage the mouse). I wasn't sure if I would see the mouse again but pulled the trash can out and made a loud gasping/stifled scream sound...the mouse was back in the trash can. But this time he was stuck because there was no bag in it.

Dan put a shirt over the top and was going to release him outside...I protested as our little friend would just come right back into the house. So we got in the car and drove down the road and dropped the mouse off at a church across the street from our house. Now he can be a church mouse if he wants...he just needs to stay out of our house!

No animals were injured in the making of this post