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I am a little disappointed that it wasn't Rick Pitino under the sink.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 22, 2005 at 8:55 AM
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Gee am I the only one who wonders
why you have it out for Mrs. Miller? Then again maybe I just forgot or missed an earlier post...
posted by
FactorFiction
on August 21, 2005 at 7:30 PM
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Hilarious
Love this one...too funny. I remember for a short time living in the country, after growing up in Chicago and moving to Silicon Valley. Quite an experience that unfortunately I can never forget. Luckily for me I had a neighbor and a son, so critters were easily disposed of without further assistance from me. Actually after hearing me scream at the top of my lungs they preferred that I keep my distance. Thanks for sharing.
posted by
LifeByLisa
on August 21, 2005 at 1:38 PM
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Don't you like The Miller Residence? Up to no good-turning your lights off and setting them free. I wonder what The Millers have in there house that they don't like (maybe they will be driving over to your house in the middle of the night :o
posted by
ThomasFranklin
on August 16, 2005 at 10:08 PM
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Oh lord I'm laughing too much. You are very cheeky (as we say down here) but I like it!
posted by
Ca88andra
on August 16, 2005 at 1:36 AM
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LOL, SOS
Help, I'm laughing so hard I just about choked on my coffee while reading. "Shit in the vase?" Now that might be a novel way to put B & R to work as fertilizers for the flowers that you put in the vase. Might be able to keep flowers a week longer that way. In that sense you can State Farm them to hell as your personal VP's. (Vase Poopers.) Really like your use of descriptive details--especially with the dead mouse. Pathetic fallacy usually gets most people in trouble but you use it just to the degree to make your mice animated and believable. I'm really beginning to enjoy the effort you put into your writing--great sense of wit. Keep it coming. Thanks for popping in on my blog. Appreciate your thoughtful comments. Scot
posted by
dog1net
on August 15, 2005 at 6:25 PM
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nice superhero reference
you may have been able to tell from my own blog, but i am a fan of cheesy superheroes.
posted by
mikebrown
on August 15, 2005 at 5:33 PM
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Awwww, Joe!
What a great story! I'm glad Batman and Robin were released from their glass prison in the vicinity of Mrs. Miller's pantry ... and I WILL get the tune of Three Blind Mice out of my head! I will! I promise, I WILL!!
posted by
Georgia
on August 15, 2005 at 5:24 PM
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Joe,
You have a rare talent for combining the wicked with the endearing. My heart just went pitter patter when you described them huddling together and then you killed the moment in the very next breath. Hope the Millers don't have a cat, or have booby-trapped the cupboards with special mousie necklaces.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on August 15, 2005 at 5:19 PM
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LMAO
You are something else... too funny. What a wild imagination you have... and such a sweet heart.
Thank you for the great story.
posted by
Sunnykins
on August 15, 2005 at 4:52 PM
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What a delightful
story. Since I moved onto the desert, a place that I grew up in and have great respect for, it has been always my intentions to treat the creature that were here when I arrived as neigbors. Feeding birds, rabbits ground squirles and who knows what. Unlike others that move out here I did not clear off the land, but was able to put my house in a spot and only required minimal alterations for the septic system. Thus I didn't destroy the homes of those here before me. No your story has given me another idea of why it's a good reason to do these things. We may never know when something bigger than us might move into the neighbor hood and then we become the mice.
posted by
Moondawg
on August 15, 2005 at 4:37 PM
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look out Gotham!
posted by
astromuffy
on August 15, 2005 at 4:35 PM
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What do the simple folk do?
I think that was Arthur's question in Camelot, where it never rains till after sundown. He wanted to know what to do about love or Guinevere or something... but here's what the country folk do: (here, kitty, kitty!) I suppose it would be cruel and unusual to obtain a cat.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 15, 2005 at 3:46 PM
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Hi Joe! Max and I live in a stone cottage in the mountains of rural NC...a
very small cottage. It is my dream come true...my little house in the woods. I have learned that I cannot leave anything open under the kitchen sink or the bathroom lav, or else the poor little mouskies will get inside and starve to death. Your local hardware store, K-Mart, etc. will carry humane mouse traps. It is a small, rectangular plastic box with a one way flap door on one end...once the lil' critter is in, he can't get out. My bait of choice is birdseed; it's non-messy , and the little guy will have food when you release him. You won't believe how much noise a mouskie can make until he starts butting that door in the middle of the night...unbelieveable!
Now for the wild mouskin release info: I take the mouskies just up the road aways to an old colapsed barn, but I daydream of taking them and releasing them on my crotchety ol' neighbor's front porch...the only reason I don't is that she is so mean that she probably uses mmetal springloaded traps. Don't ever use those - ghastly!
posted by
muser
on August 15, 2005 at 2:52 PM
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That was a very compassionate thing to do,
knowing that you don't like mice. If there was any weapon I wish I could have, it would be a ray-gun that would make things dissappear and re-appear elsewhere. I would have to let my much nicer other half designate the deposit zone. Great story! Take care
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on August 15, 2005 at 10:06 AM
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Joe
Great Writing, I read and enjoyed your entire Blog..
posted by
Jillians.New-Beginning
on August 15, 2005 at 9:56 AM
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Joe Love ...
YOU da man! No, seriously, I'm so glad I found you, or you found me, or whatever... I'm not commenting on this blog in particular. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your writing. My situation is similar to yours in that I moved from ... well, the suburbs of D.C.-MD-VA's Metropolitan Area to a 32-acre farm in Baltimore County, MD. Adjusting has been a challenge; I'm having a tough time cutting the cord from Montgomery County, MD. C'est la vie!
posted by
DivineM
on August 15, 2005 at 9:34 AM
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My kids would have turned the poor duo into household pets!
posted by
Original_Influence
on August 15, 2005 at 8:18 AM
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Love
You are so extreme, I love it. A mile and a half down the road? How long do you think it will take them to get back to you house and be trapped in the vase again? After all they are crusaders, they won' just give up you know.
posted by
Tweeter65
on August 15, 2005 at 7:06 AM
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JoeLove
Good story Joe, but up here if I catch 'em, they're history 'cuz we got deer mice and they're dangerous, they can kill ya with just breathing in the dust from their excrement.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 15, 2005 at 6:44 AM
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Joe, here's a link to Episode 19
The Road Trip Sagas
posted by
Passionflower
on August 15, 2005 at 6:34 AM
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clandestine mouse droppings, what next?
posted by
MsVision
on August 15, 2005 at 4:14 AM
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Those stinking dirty mice...
An issue I can relate to, as I've said before. Although I wish them all to die and leave my home, I would have had a hard time smooshing one like a cockroach had I found it alive. Of course, my dog Oreo, would relieve me of the trouble of doing the critter in.
posted by
bettyboop1967
on August 14, 2005 at 11:55 PM
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I am so happy that you allowed them to live
So many people don't think twice about killing these pesky rodents. This definitely restore's my faith in humanity.
posted by
Sherri_G
on August 14, 2005 at 10:02 PM
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Joe
You've gotta love Batmobiles. They're always involved in a rescue of some sort
posted by
Lensman
on August 14, 2005 at 9:33 PM
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I'm not lying, it was irking the heck out of me that nobody was catching it
It took me alllllllllll day to figure out add in a subtle little piece of humor (actually there's a second one), and nobody was getting it. I would have loved to have been able to hear Allie go "Ahhhhhhhhh. I get it"
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 9:21 PM
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JOE
Like a good neighbor the mice had the right name. It just well have been “All State”, your in good hands with Joe. Nice post .
posted by
Cypress
on August 14, 2005 at 9:17 PM
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Joe_Love
I should have not been so cryptic with you a long time ago...I knew what you meant with the StateFarm..being like a good neighbor...I was just saying the little guy was telling the big one that he was gonna call you the..."good hands" guy....get it? (I'm a retired insurance person...from one of those, actually)
posted by
Krisles
on August 14, 2005 at 9:17 PM
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Katray. . , it was a bit wicked, wasn't it.
*grin*
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 9:13 PM
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Alliecat. . ,
Thank you soooooooo much for catching that!!! I was beginning to wonder how closely people actually read me. LOL There's another subtle bit in there. Did you catch it, too??
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 9:13 PM
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State Farm?? LOL...
Country neighbors are the best. What a wicked but fun post JoeLove.
posted by
Katray2
on August 14, 2005 at 8:56 PM
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Joe_Love,
I have this large, black spider hiding in my car. When I tried to get it, it dissapeared under the mat and now I can't find it. It will probably have a hundred or so babies. Do mommy spiders have that many? Think, I could go for a ride and just ask it to please get out of my car? 
posted by
jacentaOld
on August 14, 2005 at 8:22 PM
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Like a good neighbor
LOL
posted by
allicat275
on August 14, 2005 at 7:28 PM
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The way things are in our home...
the poor mice would have been doomed to pet-dom...
Thanks for the advice regarding my soap. I may have to implement some sort of incentive like that for new-comers.
posted by
koriani
on August 14, 2005 at 6:32 PM
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I love the story, Joe-Love, but I'm glad you are not my neighbor. No telling what you would bring to me. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2005 at 5:36 PM
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ah...I love men who will rescue little critters that some people think are yucky. But I have a burning question: if you live in the country...why did you have to drive a mile and a half to let them go?
posted by
Julia.
on August 14, 2005 at 2:56 PM
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Ha..Joe Love...You are naughty...but hilarious......
I loved this post. I felt bad, but when u mentioned shit in the vase by these little guys, I wasn't that sorry.
posted by
MedusaNextDoor
on August 14, 2005 at 2:56 PM
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Joe,
I think they were trying to rescue Alfred. Poor little guys! Must've been pretty scary for them. Glad you set them free. I'm sure Mrs. Miller appreciates it, too. hehe
posted by
SpitFire70
on August 14, 2005 at 2:49 PM
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Very close, Krisles
But, no cigar.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 2:23 PM
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Joe, please don't write about boogers!
Was Kris right about what one said to the other?
posted by
Passionflower
on August 14, 2005 at 11:30 AM
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I don't like to think about dumb animals suffering.
If they have to die, I prefer that it be done humanely.
posted by
word.smith
on August 14, 2005 at 10:36 AM
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Joe_Love
Great story, Joe....and I think Icaught it(well, a possible it, anyway)....but I bet as you drove away, the little one said to the big one, you can call him StateFarm, but he'll always be Allstate to me!
posted by
Krisles
on August 14, 2005 at 10:25 AM
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Thanks, Lady. Nice to meetcha
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 9:47 AM
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could of called this one...
Of Mice and Men. but that one's already taken. ;)
posted by
quetzal
on August 14, 2005 at 9:46 AM
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Joe Love
very funny. I like your blog, it's very creative
posted by
ladyofshalott
on August 14, 2005 at 9:34 AM
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Aww, how sweet. They certainly ended up in a better place than my rat did (in German Shepherd jaws.)
posted by
Holy_Grail
on August 14, 2005 at 9:13 AM
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It nobody "catches" it
I'm going to write about something like boogers or stretch marks next time.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 9:12 AM
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LOL, that's really funny...as always, entertaining!
posted by
Ariala
on August 14, 2005 at 9:09 AM
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joe,
That is just too funny...lol...
posted by
SincerityAnna
on August 14, 2005 at 9:02 AM
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Dreyma
hahahaha "Cute like boobs". Tooooo funny.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 8:58 AM
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Funny as all hell, as usual, Joe.
Sympathy rays. The little bastards are just loaded with those, aren't they?
posted by
strat
on August 14, 2005 at 8:13 AM
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Mice
I loved this blog! Mice are cute but annoying, kind of like boobs.
posted by
Dreyma
on August 14, 2005 at 8:11 AM
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this was great, as always... i loved it! i heard banging around in my cupboard one night when my husband was gone and i was, but a new bride.... scared the living crap out of me! (because all "bad guys" come from the cupboard..) finally when the noise had stopped i dared to look. a sweet little mouse had brain damaged himself against the sides of my bread pan, trying to get out. (perhaps he was blind and didn't know he could just go over the edge....) and so he eventually curled up and died....
posted by
mmm-w
on August 14, 2005 at 7:10 AM
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daisy
Oh, and I found a five inch long centipede in mine
posted by
ariel70
on August 14, 2005 at 1:31 AM
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that's soooo great! i just found a baby rat in my living room a couple days ago.. i wrote about it in one of my blogs.. i caught it and let it go down the alley!!
posted by
daisysface
on August 14, 2005 at 1:18 AM
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I was waiting for this ... you were very sweet to do that.
posted by
Azur
on August 13, 2005 at 11:15 PM
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Uh-uh, smith. No way.
Couldn't do that. It almost killed me to finally put out the traps.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 13, 2005 at 10:25 PM
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Joe, you really are something special to
transport two mice in the dead of night to greener pastures.
I'd probably have bashed them over the head, that's if I'd allow myself to get within a yard of them....but I forgot, they beamed you with the sympathy ray. BTW, it's perfectly acceptable to use 'shat' as the paste tense of 'sh*t.
posted by
word.smith
on August 13, 2005 at 10:21 PM
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LOL! That's quite the mousy story!
Now most people would kill 'em dead...love that you also found them an object of interest to write about! We took a mouse from our cupboard and transplanted him by the hotel where my husband works...we figured there was better eatin' there!
posted by
ginnieb
on August 13, 2005 at 10:02 PM
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I'm waiting for SOMEBODY to catch it. LOL
Thanks, Passion.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 13, 2005 at 9:55 PM
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Loved this story...and you told it so well.
I would have done the same too...but what if they find their little way back to you?
posted by
Passionflower
on August 13, 2005 at 9:51 PM
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Horray!!!!!!!! Props to you for doing the right thing!!!!!!
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 13, 2005 at 9:49 PM
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LOLOLOLOL!!!
Awwwwwwwwww see you really are a big softie. Gotta love the intelligent conversation they had going there.
posted by
Bel_
on August 13, 2005 at 8:35 PM
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Holy smokes, Batman! He's feeding us to the large woman!
posted by
Renigade
on August 13, 2005 at 8:25 PM
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