Pistachios are expensive. I buy several bags at a time, keeping them on my pantry shelf. Mice have never gotten into the heavy plastic packaging. But on this Father's Day I have reason to remember something my dad used to say: "There's a first time for everything."
You father was indeed wise. I keep most everything in the fridge--not so much because of mice, but to prevent ant infestations.
ReplyDeleteAnts! They are a royal nuisance. I invested in glass jars this year, but they didn't stop the effing ants. Oh, the things I've thrown out this spring because of little ants. Even Ricola cough drops! I stopped trying to get them out of my mailbox though, as I've found they leave on their own schedule no matter what I do.
ReplyDeleteMy fridge is so packed with vegetables for juicing, but I do keep walnuts in there. I'll transfer the next bag of pistachios to a glass jar; that'll stop the mice, and I don't think ants like pistachios. (I guess I'll find out.)
Dammit!
ReplyDeleteMice tried to chew off the top of my sesame oil! I have to keep that oil in a more mouseproof cabinet now, away from the other oils. And you remind me that I have to to put the sugarborax cottonballs out again today. The tiny ants seem to want to be back.
ReplyDeleteArgh mice! I thought my cats were deterrence enough until this winter when mice became recurring guests. Actually resorted to traps, which only brought in the little ants (since I didn't want to use actual poison around the cats). Thus far I've only lost some grains and cereals. You have a higher class of rodent!
ReplyDeleteHow did traps bring in ants? I wouldn't use poison anyway. We did that when we first moved here and saw that we had rats. We put D-Con in the basement, where the dogs couldn't go. (We had no cats at the time.) Well, the rats ate it. And died. And then it was left to us to figure out where the bodies were. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. One was in a kitchen drawer. Sabine would have moved to one of those remote islands in the Bering Sea.
DeleteI once found mouse droppings in my cutlery drawer and considered burning the house down.
ReplyDeleteSee my response to Kim, above.
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