When I started my weekend on Friday, I got very surprised. Actually, I had intended to do several tasks, but mice and rats made different plans.
I started to arrange my outdoor office in the garden.
Put words together to create my post for Hive about my little invention, or rather misuse, SkyNet.
Besides writing, I was organising my storage place when I found a mouse's house in one of the stored car's seat. Investigation had started, droppings and other damages were found.
I had to throw some camping stuff because the mice nibbled at it. Also, we got rats recently. I don't know where the rats live and if they do live here, but I definitely know where the mice live. Or lived. It looks like they moved in last winter.
Not only my Friday changed, it was my whole weekend.
Full focus on checking my PPE (personal protection equipment), which means, climbing equipment. I needed to check on my ropes, loops, lanyards, and all other safety-relevant parts. Nibbled climbing ropes don't give me a good feeling while I'm hanging in them. I guess mice pee isn't really a care product for ropes, neither.
Except some camping equipment, the car seat, many droppings, and an entire weekend of examination, my equipment was not affected.
Nevertheless, I need to take care of that issue and keep observing. Thinking that the mice took it as a winter habitat and the equipment should be safe. For now. Also, I'm not a friend of putting down poison or traps, or not only leave droppings and damage but carcasses in my storage place. I rather inform myself about live traps and what causes the mice, and rats, to come to our place. Maybe live traps would allow me to take a closer look at the situation, look into Mickey and Jerry's eyes, ask them “What the cheesus!?”, and think about what solutions and further measures would help to solve and prevent.