Friday, June 25, 2010

A Mouse in the House?

Nope, not in the house but in the grill! I opened up the grill to start cooking a quick dinner before Taylor's softball game and just as I was about to fire it up I looked down and saw this!

Yes, that is a nest of baby mice, curled up in a nice little nest at the bottom of our grill. What is crazy is that I just used the grill on Sunday for Father's Day so that little Momma' Mouse did not waste any time building a nest and having the babies.


There were six little, pink, ugly babies in the nest. Though, if you would ask our children they were really cute. Mama was sitting right there in the nest with them as the babies were all whimpering with their mouths open. So, I grabbed a shoe box with intents on capturing both the babies and Mom and moving them out to the field behind us.

That is actually a picture of Mom coming up to my phone (used as camera) as I tried to take a picture. When I went in for the rescue Mom took off and I couldn't find her. I put the nest and babies in a box and set them on the deck while I grilled. Every time I went in the house and came back out to check on the meat there was one baby missing. Mom would hope up the deck stairs and crawl over to box, grabbing one baby at a time in her mouth and moving them to their next "home". The kids and Amy made it home in time to actually watch the Mom make one of her extractions.

It was just another pretty cool "National Geographic" moment at the Boelk house.