Ok, so not so great; more like little, quickie, starter clean out of the cupboard in question.
For some time now, our cat Rosie, has taken to prowling in front of one of the kitchen lower cupboards. She’d spread out in front of it, pace about and scratch at the door, sniff along the open edge of the door, and try to leap inside whenever I opened the cupboard door. Cats behave in that determined way when they are sure there’s a mouse inside and they intend to get it.
Alan insisted I was mistaken. I wasn’t. Tonight proved it. I decided the messy pile of sauce packets and bags of various kinds of sugars I stored on the top shelf needed organising in a large neat Tupperware box I had sitting unused in the utility closet.
So, I got out the storage box and went to pull out and organise the pile of small bags and packets in the cupboard. Immediately, I had pearl barley trickling over my hand from a new packet just bought last week. I looked closely - 3 nice jagged gnawed holes. Mice. More packets pulled out, more gnawed holes found. More bags tossed into the bin.
It’s all cleared out now. All the suspect packages in the bin. The shelf and surroundings all washed down with bleach. The few trustworthy intact packages wiped down and organised in the large protective box. Evidence organised and left for Alan to view. All finished except for profoundly thanking the cat and putting a mouse trap in the back of the cupboard. And calling the maintenance service to come seal the tiny opening in the wall.
Life is such fun.
