Yay, Ed!!  The best reply yet. Guerilla warfare to combat a biological pest. Good thinking. Keep a clean camp, deny the encroachers food (and water if possible) and they will leave you alone. And using recycled materials. 

I like it. 

Carl Mount
carlmount@comcast.net
303-704-7543

On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

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> Date:    Wed, 8 Aug 2012 23:04:56 -0400
> From:    Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
> Subject: Re: mouse proofing
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> One of the best things we have done is to store nearly all of our food
> staples in metal tins.  A trip to a local "Trash and Treasure" sale and a
> garage sale produced about 25 tins of various sizes and shapes for $5 total.
> These provide storage for everything a rodent would want as well as many
> other things. Storage is convenient, efficient, protected, and well labeled.
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> Ed
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