Cover Your Bases
One night a few weeks ago I was walking into the kitchen under the cover of darkness, when, out of the corner of my eye I caught something moving. First, there was a wrestling of our Middle East Bakery Pita bag, then a small head popped up. I could only see the perpetrators silhouette, but that’s all I needed to know that our house had a guest; a mouse.
After flipping on the lights and adjusting my eyes, I found that the mouse had scrammed. It left behind our fresh pita bread, with the bag chewed through in the corner, and a trail of crumbs. Remarkably enough, my first instinct was to be upset that our new housemate had eaten the pita. (I even had my name on it.)
Growing up in a remote city in the mountains, I was used to mice, bats, lizards and, one time, even a raccoon getting into the house. All we would have to do is make sure that all temptation was removed from it’s tiny little paws. This new housemate was going to be a breeze, right? Wrong.
Our new “friend”, whom we named Larry, continued terrorizing our household for the following weeks, by eating our chips, bread, anything left on the counter while not in the room, and also began visiting us in the bathroom. Larry wore out his mild welcome quickly.
Being an environmentally conscious household, we took it upon ourselves to solve the problem in a friendly manner. We purchased mousetraps that are cruelty free and merily trap the mouse in a nice area where they can munch on their treat while being contained. And so it went for our friend Larry. It took all of three days before the temptation was just too much for Larry and was lured into the trap with a peanut butter smeared saltine cracker.
Our lesson was clear: Even if you put your name on your food, it could still be eaten. Cover your bases.
September 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
This is a terrific blog site.
I was looking for a telephone number for Scott Nash and I came upon the blog. I am putting together a “GREEN WEEK” here at Montgomery College and I was looking for speakers and presenters.
Your site reminded me that even if I have problems working toward my goal of getting people to spend time and speak to architecture and construction students about sustainability … it is a worthwhile task.
I hope that Scott speak at our first “Green Week” at Montgomery College. I like your store and its’ products. I like your blog. I like the attitude of Scott’s and his employees, too.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:10 am
What a funny story. The traps really do work well with organic peanut butter…a little mouse told me so too.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Thank you Randy for your positive feedback. I would love to learn more about your “Green Week.”
September 30th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Randy-
Scott Nash here from MOM’s. I don’t really like public speaking, so I’d prefer that Jen speaks for MOM’s most of the time… Jen- it’s your call. I would probably do it if it was a group of business students, but there’s not much I’d have to say to construction/architecture students.