Set a few mouse traps in the garage last week. I’ve noticed a mousey smell near the front door of the house since the weather turned cold. I know they inhabit the garage, but I’ve never seen one in the house so it’s always been a live-and-let-live balance. The smell tipped the scale.

I figure they live in the crawl space and in the wall on the garage side of the house. But I know they use the garage because I see the occasional flash of fur out of the corner of my eye when I’m working in there.

Traps set. Three dead mice in the first two days. Then nothing for a couple of days. Then a sprung trap last night, but no kill. Tonight, I saw a mouse at the back of the garage as I rolled the car in. He hopped adroitly over a trap by the door and vanished. Think they’re on to me?