Six Four Two

I never realized how many numbers are found within a riding lawnmower until yesterday.  Rick and I were back and forth from his home to Ace Hardware trying to buy parts needed to fix his riding mower until one of the lawnmower repairmen told us that the model number & serial number that we had were not the right ones.  He said that there were many numbers found here and there and instructed us where to find the one needed to buy a coil.  The coil numbers are a combination of numbers consisting of 12 numbers, grouped as:  six numbers, four numbers and two numbers.  Once we appeared at Ace with those numbers we got the right coil.

When the mower wouldn't start yesterday morning, Rick started taking parts off the mower to check them, and when he removed a cover he found the problem.  The dead mouse was still there, laying beside its neatly built nest.  It was a sad sight for me to see because I'm partial to cute little field mice, but for Rick it was trouble.  The mouse had chewed up the line all the way to the coil.  With the new coil in hand, Rick can now put it back on the riding mower so that he can mow his yard.  I'm just hoping that this is all the damage that this little mouse has caused.

a mouse in the house

We have this cute little mouse in our house. Jybow, our big cat, had it cornered with the help of his little annoying buddy Petey when someone even more annoying came to help allowing the mouse to get away.

Jybow had the mouse trapped in a corner and the mouse looked pretty worn out when Jimmy noticed what was going on and went to the aide of the cat. That's when the mouse made its hasty getaway. So now the mouse is loose in the house somewhere and has to be caught before it chews holes in something I treasure.

I hate mouse traps because I don't want to kill the poor little misplaced creature, but I do want him out of here. If we can manage to trap him alive then I'll take him back by the creek and release him there where he'll have plenty of corn & nuts to eat all winter. This is the first little field mouse that I've seen in the house in a long time and he's probably not alone.