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There's something in our garage.

On Saturday, I noticed a suspicious accumulation of papers and of recyclable plastic containers on the floor behind the treadmill. I swept it all up, tossed the paper into the garbage can, and the plastic containers back into their big box.

On Sunday, a heap of paper was back behind the treadmill, along with the same partly chewed-up plastic containers.

Considering that the plastic containers selected by our mysterious resident were too big for a normal mouse to drag out of a tall box and across the garage floor, and considering that every time the containers were mostly for yogurt, except for the espresso powder jar, and considering that they were all being piled up behind a physical-fitness device, there is only one logical conclusion.

Mighty Mouse lives in our garage.

How the mighty have fallen.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Sounds like Agatha needs to get on the case.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Considering the track record of the person she's named after, there'd be nothing but a crater left of the garage after she'd taken care of the situation.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
That might be due to the atomic power of Mighty Mouse.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
All the more reason to keep Agatha out of the garage.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
You're saying that Agatha would be defeated?

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Oh no. I'm more concerned that she'd win and let out all that atomic energy stored inside Mighty Mouse.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
But she might develop a device to contain it.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Before or after the big kaboom?

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Before, obviously.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Or she might go "Shiny!" at something and forget to build the containment thingie before the kaboom.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Perhaps, but not if she's the cat you say she is.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com
Do you have possums in your neck of the desert? Or racoons?

Date: Oct. 14th, 2008 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
No, but we do have ground squirrels. I guess I could find out by setting up a trap with cheese - cheese of quality, of course, since its preference for yogurt and espresso indicates a rodent with refined tastes.

Date: Oct. 16th, 2008 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mjlayman.livejournal.com
Squirrels are very limber. At least the ones I feed are.

Date: Oct. 16th, 2008 01:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
The local ones aren't always limber enough to escape our two older dogs.