Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees
I live amidst the trees. Sometimes, I think the trees live amidst us, too. The bug and mouse guy was here yesterday and reported that we have fewer than maybe a dozen still active mice and no visible bugs, except for a mosquito he found in our bedroom.
I said that mosquitoes are just one of those things, but what are those things that keep coming out of the drain and he said they were “drain bugs.”
I said “they don’t seem to do anything” and he said, “mostly, bugs don’t do anything.” I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Under the stars
But meanwhile, he pointed out that we live in the woods, so we’re going to have mice because the amount of room they need to climb under a door is about the width of a dime.
Snow
I said I sympathized with their desire to find a warm place for the winter, but not here. And he said, “This is the place they are looking for.”
Proudly announcing, we are the winter spa for mice.
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Very nice captures 🙂
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Marilyn, I always enjoy your tree photos. 😀
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Thank you 🙂 I’m always trying to find another way to shoot the same old trees!
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love your trees!
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Thank you. If only they didn’t have so many passengers.
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🙂
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I know it’s coming but I don’t want to think about it…
Leslie
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You mean the annual mouse invasion? Yes, it’s coming. Soon I think. We will fight them on the beaches, in the forests, on the plains. We will never give up!
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Do you think Duke is a good mouser?
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This is NOT the house you are looking for, you need a touch of the Ben Obi Wan Kinobi force magic!
Lovely photos by the way.
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Send it on over!
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Me too. Fortunately some homeless cats have taken up a home in our alley. I think your dogs can handle the mice. They are terriers… 🙂
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They do not seem to appreciate the wonders of vermin hunting. We have had terriers who battled mice to the death. But Bonne? She can’t see, so she’s no help and Gibbs? He ONLY eats his biscuits on the sofa. Doesn’t like the floor. Not very terrier-like, in my opinion.
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They need deprogramming.
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They do not take me seriously.
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You need to train the dogs to become mousers, because my cats are the only reason my home is mouse-free. I may as well have big billboards all around my house welcoming pests to my day spa. The cats won’t take care of the crickets or spiders or drain flies or fleas… but they do keep the rodents out. Or make them wish they never checked in…
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I have had many meaningful chats with them. But strangely, they don’t seem to have taken. Why eat a yucky mouse when a perfectly good biscuit is waiting? At one point, I actually tried to force Bonnie into the place under the stairs where the mice congregate. She wouldn’t talk to me for a week.
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We have a built in garden cupboard outside, and it seems to be quite well insulated for the winter months. Now and again when we clear it out a nest is seen. Once two mice had shredded the newspapers which are in the container next to where they were and they had built a very comfortable nest. I don’t like the sound of drain bugs, although we also get a few unknown bugs, but funnily enough they all disappear in Winter : I suppose they go to that place where the flies go.
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We’ve never had drain bugs before. I have no idea where they came from. But the world is FULL of bugs and we’ve got most of them.
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