EEEK! A @#$% Vole!

It was one of those "I did not see that coming" moments. I went out back to fill up the bird feeder this afternoon, and as I returned to the garage, I went to take a step just as a vole popped up out of the snow! Not what I was expecting. I squealed and leaped into the air (no doubt to the amusement of my neighbors) - and hotfooted it back into the garage and put the door down in one heck of a hurry. What we don't need is to have the little darlings in the garage. Bad enough I can't seem to get rid of them no matter what I do. My husband's take on all this was, "You should have stepped on it!". Um, no - I think I'd have been traumatized for some little while, and it would have taken the edge right off of Valentine's Day weekend.....