Mouse Trap Jonesie

We have had a family, including cousins, of mice in the garage.
To start out, I went fishing one day and while putting on my waders, I thought that I had left a sock in the right foot of the waders. I turned the waders inside out and out ran a mouse. I then had to clean out a half a roll of paper towels that it had used for a home.
A few days later, I went fishing with the boat and parked the boat in the garage. The first of my mistakes!
During the evening hours, as I was in the garage, a mouse ran across the floor while the 2 cats sat and watched it go by. So I decided it was up to me, seeing as how the guard cats weren't doing their job, to catch the mouse.
That night I set a trap on the floor of the garage and 1 in the boat. The next morning I had 2 dead mice. So I set three traps in the boat. The next day I had one mouse and the cheese was gone from the other 2 traps.
I set the traps and then had to leave for California. Two days later, I talked to Nana and she told me it smelled in the garage. I said check the raps in the boat. Sure enough there was a dead mouse in a trap. Instead of emptying the trap, Nana opened a window to air out the garage. Little did we realize the screen had a hole in. It was like a neon sign to all the relatives to come on in.
When I got home, I not only found the dead mouse in the trap, but there were 4 more baby mice laying dead next to the one in the trap.
I removed the deceaced mice and set the traps and got 2 mice that night. The next night I got 2 more mice. Then the light finally turned on, I thought I should try closing the window.
Since the window has been closed, the mouse trapping has dwindled to nothing.

Nana's Flower Arrangement

Nana is always busy creating something nice for the house. These flowers and leaves are from the farm.

Jonesie's Digs

Yard Work

Nana and Jonesie were busy on Sunday morning doing some yard work before the rain came. Speaking of rain, last week we had 1.75 inches of rain. I emptied the rain gage this morning before the rain started and so far today we have had .8 inches.

The picture is of one of the colorful leaves we have and it is on top of an old grinding stone. There is also a Lake Superior rock in the center.

Visiting The "B"s"

While on my current job, I was lucky enough to be able to visit MR and MRS B and the two little B's, CB and RB.
While I was there we looked at picture's from the reunion and the CB and RB wanted to see all of the pictures on the computer. Well we looked at some more and I asked CB and RB if I could take their picture and put it on our blog. CB reaction was "am I going to be a star on the internet?" Then she wanted to know how to make her own blog on the internet. Then the BIG question came up. CB wanted to know how much does it cost. I told her 0 and she wanted to get started right away.

Now for RB. He first gave me a tour of the house and showed me some of the Halloween decorations in the game room. He then challenged me to a game of cards. I told him that I was pretty fair at cards but he wanted to play. Turns out he was a much more calculating and cunning player than I thought. In the end it was RB 2 Jonesie 0. The first defeat came at a game of "GO Fish" and the second stunning defeat was at "WAR". He just knew when to hold them and when to throw them.

Busy Weekend

Nana and Jonesie had a busy weekend, for us anyway. It started on Friday when PJP came over and we left to go to Hayward to meet for lunch with MJB and PAB. We met at the big Muskie and went on a tour of the Fresh Water Fishing Museum. As usual my luck with batteries continues. I was going to take the first picture of the day and discovered that the battery in the camera was dead.

After the tour we went to Famous Daves for lunch. It is set on Big Round lake and we had a window seat overlooking the water. The view was nice and the food and conversation were also very nice.

Nana had framed some pictures for MJB and after the exchange we headed home. The leaves have started turning color and it was a very colorful drive. We stopped in Cumberland for a chocolate covered dairy queen.

On Saturday we went to a weeding for one of Nana's coworkers. I told her we had to leave by 6:30 because da Badgers were playing and were on tv. Well we didn't leave at 6:30 but did get home in time to See the second half of the game, in which da Badgers won!!!

Deer Report:
Friday night There were 9 deer walked by me while I was in the tree stand. There were 4 adult does and 5 fawns and they are still walking in the woods.

I went out looking this morning, I didn't take a bow with, and saw nothing until I was leaving the woods when I looked to my right and there stood a 6 point buck watching me. He was a 1 1/2 year old but still fun to see.

Fall Fishing

The feed gag was on today for Large Mouth Bass and Northern Pike. I caught 13 bass from 10" to 17". I also caught a 27" pike. He will be good for dinner tonight.

It was cold out on the lake, 48 degrees and a stiff southeast wind, but the fishing was great.