hey folks,

so sunday morning we fired up the westy, it's father's day and were getting
ready to meet my father for breakfast. i turn to my wife and ask her if she
smells the faint stench that i do. she replies no, and by the time we're on
the road with the windows open, the smell was gone. for now.

it was last weekend that after returning to retrieve my power bar from my
open van that i noticed that someone, or something rather, had been
feasting on my snack! i thought awhile, and dismissed it as local birds
that nest in our carport (some how i validated this theory even though
there was another bar half eaten in the glove box... how did a bird get in
there?).

now it's this morning and i wake up early and go prep the westy for her
commute. i usually fire her up for one commute per week (50+ miles). i get
in and that faint stench from the other morning was now a full blown
stench! i began to search the van, thinking it must be some bad food (but
we don't randomly keep food in the van...). well, for those of you who have
not already figured it out... it was a mouse. a mouse had died at the
bottom of the clothes closet. i promptly removed it.

how did it get there? best chance is it was a stow-away from our move
several weeks ago. any chance there is a way a 3" mouse could mosey himself
up into a vanagon? by the way, the mouse partially chewed through wiring
that runs up along the inside of the closet wall. are these just the wiring
for the ac?

thanks for your patience,

chris

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Chris & Aimee Uzzi
'72 Westy (deceased)
'90 Westy (Merlot)
'98 A4 Quattro (on the way...)
'91 CRX Si