Mouse Pad




No, not this kind,




But this, the kind kids use to make inky images like whales or cars. Max used these in Barrington to print his foot.




We brought them to Chocorua and, in an effort to find out how very wily mice were getting into our kitchen cabinet and destroying, among other things, my lovely supply of chocolate (sigh), we put a dab of peanut butter on a piece of tinfoil in the middle of each pad, thinking we could see which way their little, now inky, paw prints were going and how they got in.




The next morning this is what we found. Peanut butter gone, paw prints of green, red and blue all around but not going into or out of the cabinet. They especially loved the blue pad, tore it to pieces.




So, on the advice of people in the area who said mice could open cabinet doors and drawers, we taped up all the openings we could find, waited two days, and--sadly--found mouse droppings inside again!! Tonight we put flashlights inside, turn off all the lights and look for small cracks of light escaping anywhere.