{"id":89,"date":"2009-12-23T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2009\/12\/23\/ThisIsTheHouseThatJedBuilt.aspx"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:43:39","slug":"this-is-the-house-that-jed-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"This is the house that Jed built\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the mouse that lived in the house that Jed built\u2026 but let me not get ahead of myself.<\/p>\n

We built a house out in the country in the middle of a great big field \u2013 and needless to say we have been fighting the introduction of field mice into our house since we first moved in.<\/p>\n

Our house is a two story ranch; the first floor is exposed on 3 out of the 4 sides, and we have always been able to contain the mice to the first floor (at least neither we nor our cat have found evidences of mice on the second floor).<\/p>\n

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However, over the last couple weeks we have been seeing indications from our cat Zia that there could be mice in the upstairs part of the house now.  <\/p>\n

As a quick aside, Zia is another animal all together; we warn all friends and family that come over that she is a little schizophrenic; she can be sweet and loving, and begging to be pet one second; and then the next second she will dig her claws into you and claw & bite.  No one ever believes us; until after they have been hit.  Zia is a royal pain in my rear \u2013 even though I\u2019m the only person in the house she doesn\u2019t dare to attack \u2013 however; she still has some value as a mouser apparently.<\/p>\n

Anyway, yesterday was the first time we actually saw signs of the mice upstairs (mouse poop in a drawer) so the war began.  While we believed there was more than one mouse, we only had one trap \u2013 and so we set it.  Here is where the story really begins though.<\/p>\n

This morning we were woken up to Braeden saying \u201cOh that\u2019s cute, Zia has a toy mouse\u201d; and it was then followed up with something to the effect of \u201cBella throw Zia her mouse\u201d (I couldn\u2019t quite hear, because I sleep with earplugs on mornings that I don\u2019t want to wake up at 6 AM by our children).<\/p>\n

Scrambling out of bed we found this: <\/p>\n

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That was the most lifelike toy mouse we have ever seen.  We didn\u2019t have the heart to tell Bella that she was tossing around a dead mouse though.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the mouse that lived in the house that Jed built\u2026 but let me not get ahead of myself. We built a house out in the country in the middle of a great big field \u2013 and needless to say we have been fighting the introduction of field mice into our house since we … Continue reading “This is the house that Jed built\u2026”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}