{"id":23183,"date":"2026-03-11T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/keeping-mice-in-their-place-outdoors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:25:31","slug":"keeping-mice-in-their-place-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/keeping-mice-in-their-place-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Mice in Their Place\u2026Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I opened the door to my boyfriend\u2019s 1948 International grain truck without a moment\u2019s hesitation. \u201cOkay!\u201d he called. \u201cWhen I get the chain connected to the other truck, you go forward slowly until the other engine gets going!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGot it!\u201d I said. I was eager to show Johnny I knew my way around the farm. Just because I worked behind a cosmetics counter didn\u2019t make me prissy!<\/p>\n

My dad was an entomologist. I\u2019d grown up around creepy, crawly things he studied. They were all part of God\u2019s universe. Not as pretty as angels, but just as necessary. I could handle anything a farm threw at me.<\/p>\n

Johnny attached the chain to another truck that had been sitting in his barn through the long North Dakota winter. With spring and planting season coming on, it was time to get her running.<\/p>\n

I slid my legs under the steering wheel, wishing I\u2019d worn jeans instead of shorts. The seat was covered with dust and bits of insulation. It probably hasn\u2019t been cleaned since \u201948, <\/em>I thought. The cab smelled of mothballs. I could feel a headache coming on, like the kind I got after spraying perfume all day long at the store.<\/p>\n

Johnny connected the chain, hopped in the cab behind me and gave me a thumbs-up. I started the engine and put the truck in gear. It eased forward, the chain tightening. I felt a tingling on my bare leg, like little feet running up my skin. Like a bug or a\u2026 Mouse! In my lap!<\/em><\/p>\n

I slammed on the brakes and sprang out of the cab. \u201cA mouse!\u201d I screamed, my hands waving over my head. \u201cIt\u2019s in the truck. Get it away from me!\u201d I could still feel the critter\u2019s feet on my skin!<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, there\u2019s always mice on a farm,\u201d Johnny said. \u201cI put some mothballs in the truck, but nothing really works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh,\u201d I said, embarrassed. Maybe I was a little prissy after all. I glared at the truck. That little mouse had messed with the wrong girl! Clearly he didn\u2019t mind the smell of mothballs, but maybe\u2026<\/p>\n

I pulled out some perfume samples from my purse and sprayed them inside the cab, under the seat and the dashboard, along the floorboards, everywhere. My dad had a favorite saying: \u201cBuild a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.\u201d It was time to test out Dad\u2019s theory.<\/p>\n

There was a second of silence, followed by the sound of scampering feet. Ha! \u201cThey don\u2019t want to sit in your truck when it smells like that,\u201d I said. I couldn\u2019t wait to tell Dad!<\/p>\n

Johnny sniffed and made a face. \u201cNeither do I.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perfume obviously wasn\u2019t the best solution. Johnny didn\u2019t like it, it was expensive, and the mice would come right back when it faded. I guess I hadn\u2019t found Dad\u2019s better mousetrap. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing you can do about mice on a farm,\u201d Johnny said. \u201cExcept get used to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But over the next few weeks I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about that mouse problem. Johnny was right. Mice were everywhere. I didn\u2019t want to kill them. Maybe I wasn\u2019t as fond of them as I was of Dad\u2019s bugs, but they were one of God\u2019s creepy crawlies just the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry experimenting with different things,\u201d Dad said when I mentioned the incident over the phone. Dad was gravely ill and I knew he didn\u2019t have much longer on this earth. \u201cSee what makes the best mouse repellent,\u201d he challenged me.<\/p>\n

The best mouse repellent, <\/em>I thought as I hung up. But how?<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnny got used to my fascination with repelling mice. We got married and moved to the country. I traded in my cosmetics counter for endless cornfields. I planted a huge garden and grew organic produce I sold to restaurants and at farmer\u2019s markets.<\/p>\n

On another patch I grew flowers and used the blooms to make potpourris and sachets, playing with scents. \u201cYour potpourri smells wonderful,\u201d a lady said at the market one weekend. \u201cIt drew me to your booth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you,\u201d I said. Little did she know I was in pursuit of exactly the opposite\u2014a scent that would drive something away: mice!<\/p>\n

A lot of my profits went into my experiments. I bought all kinds of oils, peppermint and rose, cedar and balsam fir. I kept Dad posted on my progress. But I needed something to absorb the oil, to keep the aroma. Farmers wanted something that would last at least six months.<\/p>\n

Pinecones were absorbent. A farmer could toss a pinecone into the cab of a truck and forget about it. I paid neighborhood kids to gather bags of pinecones and swabbed them with oil. Then I gave them to friends to test over the winter.<\/p>\n

And they worked! The mice wanted nothing to do with them. Especially the pinecones soaked in balsam oil. There was just one problem. I\u2019d used every pinecone for miles around. They just weren\u2019t practical to use on a big scale. I knew the oil that worked best. I just needed something to hold the scent.<\/p>\n

That spring, Dad died. Without his encouragement, I was all but ready to give up on my project. A massive summer hailstorm was icing on the cake. The cornfields, the garden\u2014all of it was gone. Just like Dad. Just like my plans for a better mouse repellent.<\/p>\n

Maybe Johnny was right. The only way to deal with mice on a farm was to get used to them.<\/p>\n

I went outside where Johnny was picking up branches. All seemed hopeless. How would we recover? \u201cWe\u2019ll get through this,\u201d Johnny said. \u201cThis time next year we\u2019ll have more crops than we know what to do with.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was true. Every spring brought rebirth, a new start. Farmers planting wheat. And soybeans. Cornfields as far as the eye could see\u2026<\/p>\n

Corn<\/em>. The thought tickled my brain the same way that mouse\u2019s feet had tickled my leg so long ago. How could I not have thought of it before? Ground up corncobs would hold the balsam scent for months!<\/p>\n

I had the answer. It\u2019d come to me at the very moment when it seemed there were no answers. When my life was at its bleakest. Not my idea. More like a connection, a stirring inside of me, an inspiration worthy of my father. Delivered on angel wings.<\/p>\n

Today I sell my Fresh Cab mouse repellent pouches in all 50 states and Canada. People write to me with stories about mice and how happy they are to keep them outdoors where they belong. I read every one of them. Mice have become my favorite creepy crawly. (And my favorite kind of angel.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I opened the door to my boyfriend\u2019s 1948 International grain truck without a moment\u2019s hesitation. \u201cOkay!\u201d he called. \u201cWhen I get the chain connected to the other truck, you go forward slowly until the other engine gets going!\u201d \u201cGot it!\u201d I said. I was eager to show Johnny I knew my way around the farm. 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