God dammit!

I noticed shortly after making my first corn-filled hot-and-cold packs that mice love them. They also love being in our nice, cozy house in the winter!

After having more than a few hot-and-cold sacks ruined by mice, I decided to fix this by getting a big plastic tub to keep my extra sacks and unused corn in. This worked pretty great! For a while.

Today, I was planning to make some new corn sacks to hand out at work, since it's practically an annual tradition for me at this point. Only it looks like I'm going to have to break tradition (no big loss for me, TBH) because one or more mice has managed to wriggle in between the top and bottom of the plastic container. The three ready-made corn sacks I have stored in there, for a miracle, aren't chewed on; the bottom compartment is just soaked in mouse pee 😑 And there's soooooo much mouse poop. I don't even trust the corn that's remaining in the (presumably waterproof) bag that I bought it in.

So, upcoming tasks:

Dump the presumably bad corn in the yard waste bin

Get rid of or viciously clean out the plastic bin the corn was in

Brainstorm a new way to protect corn

Set mouse traps

Cry a little to myself over lost efforts

Pick myself up and start again

Not necessarily in that exact order.