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LIDICKER
1981
Sept 16 cont.
Dayt. We set 7 traps - this house. Turning on to
the road to Zatkowice we soon spotted a older farm-
farm combination which looked promising for mice . So,
we stopped & talked to a very fat lady farm wife. She
thought we were crazy + that perhaps Poland should start
exporting mice to the U.S. We set 8 traps - various
rooms in her house + 2 more in the loft of her garage. In
the kitchen she showed us bread that had been eaten by
mice. This village is called Obrochówka. Then we
continued on to the village of Kościelisko which is only
3 km W of Zatkowice. We walked into the home of
two people who are friends of Grodziski's as they often
spend vacations renting rooms in their house. The
wife is a Landscaper artist & the husband is an excellent
carpenter + wood carver. Their house contains beautifully
constructed log house etc. The husband is looking for a prefabricated
log house for summer in Warszawa (the home is to be
mountaineer style). We set 5 traps in their house + barn.
Then they had their nephew ( whom they seem to have adopted
because they have no children) take us to a neighbor's farm not too far away which they report has more mice.
This place did indeed look good & we set 12 traps:
their barn (1 in loftroom). This made a total of 34 traps
set. Then we went to Zatkowice to have lunch at the
same private restaurant + cafe where we were last night.
While there showed me around the touristy parts of