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| O Christmas Tree |
| It was in December of 1996 when I had gone home for Christmas that this next mouse event took place. About a couple of weeks before Christmas I had decided to put up the ........ |
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| but it was the kind of tree that came in a .. |
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| no tramping through the deep snow to look for a tree for this Eagle, and thus I went down to the basement to get the tree. Knowing exactly where it was from having seen it on prior occasions I proceeded to the basement to retrieve the tree. The box was sitting on top of another box and short Eagle had to lift it off the one it was sitting on. Of couse it wasn't that heavy but as I lowered the box down so I could look over it to see where I was going and much to my shock, surprise and fright I saw walking across the top of the |
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| "jumping geesus!!!! ", I exclaimed, dropped the box, not even looking back headed for the stairs, as I walked up the ...... |
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| it felt like my heart was in my throat, pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears. I walked into the living room. Mum was laying on the sofa watching tv and when I appeared she said, "Are you alright, I thought you'd fallen or something?" I turned to look at Mum and the first thing that came out of my mouth was, "No there's a g-dayumed f'ing ........ |
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| in the basement." No sooner were the words out of my mouth when I realized what I had said and I looked at Mum and said.., "Oh my gawd Mum I am so sorry I really didn't mean to say that." I looked at Mum and she was just laying there cracking up laughing at what had just happened. After I got my wits about me and Mum had stopped laughing and certain that the mouse would be too scared of me to come back anytime soon I went back down to get the box. When I got it up into the kitchen and opened it up to spread the branches out what did I discover much to both mum's and my surprise but a white furry nest that the mouse had built in the tree. Later mum told me to get a ......... |
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| was a ..... |
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| which I did, mum set it and I put it down in the basement. Within days we had our mouse. Dawned with garden gloves and the trap between my thumb and index finger, I took it out and threw mouse, trap and all in the woods next to the house. When I came back in Mum asked where the trap was, "I threw it out too, I'll buy you a new one, they aren't that expensive." |
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| no not this kind of mousetrap |
| but this |