Leaving a home empty for multiple months is bound to create a need for lots of cleaning, some repairing, the replacement of things like batteries, and so on. After two days of washing windows, dusting most all surfaces, and a good scrubbing of the tile floors, our house is back to where it was when we left 5 months ago.
Living in a rural desert environment has a few additional critter challenges that aren't present in an urban setting. Even though we haven't seen any snakes yet, they are here, along with scorpions (which we have seen) , and other obnoxious insects & creatures. With monthly visits from the local pest control company, and an aggressive plan of my own, we have kept the critters away from the house, or so I thought.
While we were gone, Marc called and said that he saw some evidence of rodent activity in the house, and promptly set some traps. Well, the mere presence of the traps, plus some additional outside bait in the traps by the pest control company must have scared Mickey & his friends away, or so I thought.
Shortly after returning home, when I fired up the desktop computer, I couldn't get the curser on the screen to move when I used the computer mouse. It didn't take long to discover what the problem was. The connecting cord between the mouse and computer had been severed in 5 different places. Amazingly, all of the other cords and cables appeared to be intact. The one critter with a distinct reputation for this type of behavior is the desert pack rat. A quick trip to the hardware store, and I was armed with more traps, poison, and even some sort of anti rodent pulse signal device that plugs into a house electrical outlet. With one battle victory on the mouse scorecard, the rest of the war is going to be extremely lopsided! Bring it on Mickey, you're going down!
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