It's Wanda's job to mow the lawn. Usually, she does it without being prompted, but she hasn't gotten to it for over a week. After she left for work today, I went out to do some gardening and noticed that the lawn was getting excessively long, so I decided to mow it. I took off my gardening gloves and pulled the lawn mower out of the shed.
My lawn mower has a button to prime it, but I find it more effective to just turn the whole machine on its side for 10 seconds or so. I did that, then noticed the lawn mower bag wasn't properly attached.
(That wasn't a surprise - we don't normally leave the bag attached when we put the lawn mower away.)
I picked up the bag and a mouse ran out and hid under the bush.
I picked up the bag from where it had fallen when I screamed and jumped back, and tipped it to make sure there were no other mice in it.
Then I looked at the grass and noticed the two baby mice.
I couldn't leave them unprotected - particularly since I was about to mow the lawn - so I put the gardening gloves on and put them into a yogurt container, which I then put under the bush in the hopes that the mother mouse would find them.
I attached the bag, started the lawn mower, and ... it started to rain.
The lawn still needs mowing.
Dawning
21 hours ago
Don't leave us hanging!! Did the mother mouse find her babies? Did the lawn ever get mowed?? I MUST KNOW.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you handled the issue very well :-)
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