Both are pieces in my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy leg mural.

The Babelfish…

And the “42” made out of cheese and the white mice. The white is solid but very hard to show in my brown skin. Where it looks splotchy is where there is blood in the skin. It’ll all even out in a couple days. (If it doesn’t I know where to get hold of a tattoo machine)

twitchyspastic replied to your post: I colored in 2 of my tattoos and for the life of me I cannot get a good picture.

Tried editing the pix?

Yeah, I took 2 new ones. For some reason the yellow-work in the 42 looks like it overlaps the black lines, but I cut in around the edges with a wide liner. Miss Autumne says that if there was dry skin, it’ll soak up the ink in the area and when the tattoo peels it will look better. So we’ll see in a couple days.

Our cat D.O.G is a good, fast mouser IF he can get to where mice are.

We had a nice little family of mice move into the gas stove between the layers of metal of the oven & stove top.  The weirdest thing about this is that I cook for a small army every day, use the oven almost every day and clean the stovetop every day.  I started putting traps behind the broiler drawer and caught 5 mice but still don’t think I got them all.

Now there are mice nesting in our AC ductwork under our floors.  The ducts are soft circular insulated tubes.  I’m seeing bits of insulation being blown up to the floor grates (making me think I’m going to have to crawl under the house and find holes in the ducts which will have to be fixed before heating season).  Also with my super canine sense of smell, I can smell them when we use the AC and it comes on to run.

Hard to put traps down the grates into the ducts because they go down about arm’s reach & then curve.  If I put D-Con down there, there’s a good chance mice will die and decay in the ducts and blow THAT smell through my house.

Any suggestions or solutions?

ronmanblog replied to your post: If anybody has an answer for this, I’d like to know it.

Take off one of the grates and set your traps. The peanut butter, or whatever you’re using as bait should draw them out. Once you feel you’ve caught all of them simply replace the grate.

That’s the only solution I can think of, but I’m nervous about being able to get the traps down into the duct without springing them, and get them back out of the duct once a mouse has been caught.  It’s a pretty far reach.