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[Crankin]

Tuckervill, do you mean Peak's Island?
Portland, Maine is another place I love, but rarely get to anymore. We almost moved there, but it was 10-15 degrees colder than Boston and coming from AZ, we thought it might make us crazy.
My son used to do a bike race in Saco and we would go into Portland every night during the weekend. Fun.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Old fashioned mouse traps works well for us, in our basement and garage (where the cats don't have access).

Over the winter in our little barn where the rider mower is stored, we put a cloth bag full of mothballs inside the mower engine- mice hate the smell thus will not nest inside the mower engine during the winter and eat the wiring.

[Biciclista]

Get a terrier. Border terriers in particular are great vermin hunters. Too bad you don't live near me, I could loan you one for a day, your mice would be gone.
Of course you wouldn't want to watch.

Terriers can't get into car parts in the middle of the night when the mice show up!

[Pax]

Terriers can't get into car parts in the middle of the night when the mice show up!

I think they win the war through attrition.

[mtbdarby]

Maybe you should feed them something besides your car

[DebW]

Hello all. It's day 2 of my 3 month stay in Zurich. Finally got internet working in my apartment (finally thought to cycle the power on the router). Biked to work today (5 miles) and had to pull out the map a few times each way. Lots to learn about living here. Gorgeous views of Lake Zurich from the city.

Duck, where are you? Since I'm on your side of the pond, maybe our online times will mesh.

[Trek420]

Duck, where are you? Since I'm on your side of the pond, maybe our online times will mesh.

Duck and UK are probably packing for ALC right now. Both arrive here on Friday I think? UK will head back to Wales right after ALC. I think she leaves for the airport right after closing ceremonies.

After the ride Duck heads back up to Northern CA with our mutual Mom who is heading down to catch them and closing ceremonies. Then she's back to Hell (Hell, Norway that is ).

We have a mutual cousin who lives in Geneva. D must be in her late 70's I think, does a little bike riding and still works as a UN Translator on some of their special projects.

[Zen]

Trek, you have such an interesting family

[Duck on Wheels]

Hello all. It's day 2 of my 3 month stay in Zurich. Finally got internet working in my apartment (finally thought to cycle the power on the router). Biked to work today (5 miles) and had to pull out the map a few times each way. Lots to learn about living here. Gorgeous views of Lake Zurich from the city.

Duck, where are you? Since I'm on your side of the pond, maybe our online times will mesh.

Hi Deb! I'm up here [she waves] North of you. Waaayy north, kinda backlit against the 1030pm sunset. Can you see me? For the moment, yes, we're in the same time zone. Until I leave for California on Friday. I'll be back again June 13. I hear rumours that scrabble is again available on Fb ...? Haven't found it there yet, but I've heard rumours.

[Duck on Wheels]

Trek, you have such an interesting family

All families are interesting once you get to know them and take the time to think about it a bit. We take them for granted, but they're all unique and have interesting stories about how they got to be who they are.

[Trek420]

Trek, you have such an interesting family

I do I'm lucky they picked me What Duck sez. All families are interesting.

[Crankin]

Deb, what job are you doing for three months, you lucky thing????

[DebW]

Deb, what job are you doing for three months, you lucky thing????

Visiting scientist at ETH University working on climate impact of volcanoes (we don't need volcanoes, just computers to simulate them).

[Tuckervill]

Tuckervill, do you mean Peak's Island?
Portland, Maine is another place I love, but rarely get to anymore. We almost moved there, but it was 10-15 degrees colder than Boston and coming from AZ, we thought it might make us crazy.
My son used to do a bike race in Saco and we would go into Portland every night during the weekend. Fun.

Yeah, that's it! Peak's Island!

My best friend's mother grew up in Saco, and I hunted down her old house for her and talked to the old man who lived there and took a picture of the house. That was the trip I thought was 5 miles away, so I took my mountain bike, and ended up doing 25 miles because I took a wrong turn.

I love that area, though.
Karen

[OakLeaf]

I might try mothballs, but I'd be a little afraid of the fumes getting into the passenger compartment. I'm thinking more along the lines of hosing the whole thing down with hot pepper spray, or Bitter Apple, or something.

We'd have to hit EVERYTHING - wheel sensors, I assume there are sensors on the exhaust system? and all the wiring in the engine compartment, which is really packed tight, we'd have to spray from above and below.

It isn't garaged, but the garage is actually worse. We did learn, with the motorcycles, it's a matter of denying the mice shelter. If we take the seats off as soon as we park, mice won't nest. I'm not sure there's an equivalent with a car - DH thinks parking with the hood open would just invite more critters in, and obviously it wouldn't have any effect on them eating the wheel sensors.

I don't think we could trap all the mice in the county. I'm just happy when we can keep them out of the house. When we leave for the winter, all the kitchenware, linens and clothes go into plastic tubs (we learned that the hard way, too ).

Our experience from our last house - where the neighbors had outdoor cats - is that cats just drive the mice deeper into places where the cats can't go. Not good.

One of my riding buddies offered me one of the big blacksnakes that lives in his shed. I'd take him up on it, but not sure how I'd keep the snake confined to the mouse-accessible areas of the car.

Maybe you should feed them something besides your car

Honestly, I was thinking about getting a few hundred feet of wire, putting it in a nice cozy box, and letting them have at it.