So here it is January in the New Year but what it is mostly is cold. The calendar seems even more irrelevant this year because it started getter bitter cold in November. The last two days it has been in the teens and with strong gusts of wind that carry that cold into everything. The house is cold- the dishes in the cupboard are cold and no matter how many layers I put on I am cold. I try to like winter. I love the idea of winter with everything blanketed in snow- blanketed sounds as though it is warm out there but the reality is that it does not seem fit for human survival.It isn't my age because I've always been cold.
Evidently the animals out there feel the same way because we've had an invasion of mice. There are always mice despite the two cats but a few weeks ago we started noticing that Anabel was catching about one a night. That should have tipped us off but it wasn't until I started noticing mouse droppings in the silverware drawer that it really became apparent. So then we checked all the drawers (and yes ugh) despite there being nothing edible in those drawers, there was evidence of their presence. So we set more traps and caught more. We are now living with all of the drawers out on the kitchen table. They may stay there until spring which at the moment feels very very far off.
