Another mouse story

I was doing laundry the other day when I stepped on a lump under the throw rug in front of the washer. I peered under the rug to see what it was. The light isn't great there and I didn't have my reading glasses with me. It was brown and had a long tail and looked just like a slightly dried up mouse that the cats might have been playing with. I gingerly picked it up by the tail intending to throw it away, and when I got it into the better light in the kitchen, I realized it was one of the little beets from the garden that I had harvested! They were in a pail in the kitchen with a towel over them, because Gwen delighted in rolling them all around the kitchen. I guess she had managed to dig under the towel for her latest favorite plaything!