Monday, December 20, 2021
First day of Christmas break on what would have been a school day. It's so nice to have time off.
I puttered around the house a bit and then took a walk with a cigar in the afternoon.
Dale and I had chicken with tortellini for dinner and for dessert some banana bread Warren made for us.
Shortly before bed I happened upon the first mouse I've ever seen in this house. It came running out of the kitchen as I was approaching and froze a few feet away from me. Sylvester slowly came up from behind it and we all stood there frozen for a minute or so. Finally the mouse bolted and Sylvester chased it behind the couch where and stood guard for quite awhile.
Like I said I've never seen a mouse in the house since we've lived here. Last year we found a hole chewed in the bottom of Athena's bag of food which we were storing in the basement. We also found some mouse droppings around it which prompted us to find a more secure storage solution but we never saw any mice. I love having Sylvester around and this is a timely benefit of having him here. Pictured above is Sylvester's toy mouse which came over with him from John's. My understanding is he had a few other toys but this is the only one he ever played with. It's fun watching him bat it around and it moves quite quickly across the hardwood floors.
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