This has been going on since the beginning of fall and I need some help. I have an old pickup that I use to piddle around the property, haul stuff, etc. I call it my "ugly truck." Around here there is a premium on flat space so it's parked across the drive from the well house a few hundred feet from the main house. In early fall something, mouse, squirrel, vole, chipmunk, something decided the glove compartment of the truck would make a nice winter nest. There were leaves, pine needles, twigs and bits of paper all fluffed into a soft mesh. It was cute and comical in a way. Except that I kept my registration and insurance card in an envelope along with a notebook/log for the truck in there. That's where the paper came from. Imagine trying to explain that to the cop at the check-point. "Well, you see officer, there's this mouse. . . "
Anyway, I tossed the mess out and next week it was back. This time with insulation from my firewall. I put mouse traps in the truck and in the glove compartment with peanut butter no less - nothing. The peanut butter turned to stone. But the nests keep coming back. The thing is eating my truck. It's beginning to work on my mind. On one hand, I want to rush out every morning to check for the nest and on the other I'm afraid I'll find one. Believe me, this living with nature has its drawbacks.