I hate these meeces to pieces

This past week we have been learning all the quirks of our new house.  Lauren has gone through the ‘renter’s guilt’ stage as she adjusts.  The most annoying of our issues is the large mouse that comes and visits our kitchen every night.  He has eaten through a hard plastic fly cover and knocked off a lid to Lauren’s lunch container which had shrimp fried rice.  Not only is this mouse getting gourmet food, he is getting fat by eating every night.  To say the least, this creature has out smarted us so far. We still don’t have a mini refrigerator since they are so expensive so we have been leaving our food out at night covered like most Filipinos do.  Our food has been kept overnight, on a table covered with a fly trap.  The food that is left over is then eaten for breakfast.  This is one of the many reasons why it took so long for our stomachs and immune systems to adapt to our new surroundings.  Alan has been looking for mouse traps but there is only poison to be found in our local market, that’s all we need is a large dead mouse in the walls of our house.  Until we can make it into the city to buy some traps we are left fighting a battle with a very hungry and large mouse.  

With all of this being said, we have been enjoying having our own kitchen and cooking again.  In Manila we bought some black eyed peas to make for New Years for a little luck.  Since we didn’t have our own place at the time we are just now getting around to making them.  We figured better late than never.  As we go into the next year we will need all the dumb luck we can get.  Like a certain mouse getting run over in the street!!!

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