the thing in the garage

[sergebroom]

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.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Agatha needs to get on the case.

[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.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That might be due to the atomic power of Mighty Mouse.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

All the more reason to keep Agatha out of the garage.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You're saying that Agatha would be defeated?

[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.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

But she might develop a device to contain it.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Before or after the big kaboom?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Before, obviously.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Or she might go "Shiny!" at something and forget to build the containment thingie before the kaboom.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but not if she's the cat you say she is.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Do you have possums in your neck of the desert? Or racoons?

[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.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Squirrels are very limber. At least the ones I feed are.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

The local ones aren't always limber enough to escape our two older dogs.