we did have snow though, although it was brief. This cold absolutely sucks though, I'm still running my space heaters. I was hoping for it to get warm so I could evict these mice who came inside when I was having my bathroom plumbing redone and the contractor left without finishing the job. I got someone else to plug up the holes he left behind but the mice wouldn't leave and I tried everything- poison, glue traps, etc. The poison made me more sick than doing anything to the mice. I noticed that they seem to be more active when I turn my heat on so I turned it off and hoped it would be warmer outside by now so they'd just leave. But they haven't and the only other thing that keeps them in hiding is when I leave my light on all night and laying down plastic bags on my floor for some reason. Stupid useless creatures like this should be extinct...... The things I wouldn't mind seeing wiped off the planet are: mice/rats, mosquitoes, fleas/ticks, cockroaches, flies (of all types), centipedes/millipedes, etc. Why do all the useful creatures go extinct while the pests keep overpopulating? I even have cats roaming around outside and the dirty rodents somehow managed to avoid them.
anyway I digress. I'm leaving for the weekend and turning my heat off completely and I have a new poison I'm laying down everywhere so hopefully everything will be dead when I get back. The glue traps killed a few of them but the rest somehow learned to avoid it. I'm also thinking of leaving my lights on a timer.