Anything protein being roasted usually smells good -- I have had moths
roasting on the halogen lamp at home -- smells just like when my
husband is bbq'ing steak in the back yard...

Tina

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:25:04 EDT, George Goff <thx0001@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 9/24/04 1:01:08 PM, calle.fallberg@TELIA.COM writes:
> 
> << You�re frying mice that has nested in the exhaustsystem ;-)
> 
> Calle >>
> 
> Don't laugh, this is a real possibility.  As I have written previously, I am
> something like the dufess Bill Murray character in "Caddyshack", constantly at
> war against some harmless little creature who is just looking for a place to
> raise the family.
> 
> One fall evening shortly after I got my first van, I cranked open the sunroof
> and took the kids for some ice cream.  Once the exhaust system got up to
> temperature it really started cooking, puffing out billowy clouds of smoke.  I had
> already learned the Vanagon mantra, "Now what?", so I muttered it and pulled
> over.  When I got to the rear of the van, even with the engine stopped it was
> still smoking like a diesel with its choke left on.  That was when I caught
> the unmistakable odor of burning protein and about the same time the kids
> started with the 'What's wrong, Daddy?".  I was ready to tell them about the field
> mouse or chippie being catalytically converted to charcoal in the exhaust
> system when I remembered the series of books about the cute field mouse family
> sitting on the shelf at home.  So, I lied and told them that a squirrel probably
> thought the tailpipe was a good place to store some acorns.
> 
> George
>