Spartacus the Camp Mouse

This video deserves some explanation, especially in light of the hantavirus incidents in Yosemite.  Two years ago Mary and Emma were at Sixty Lakes and named the camp mouse Spartacus.  Last year Mary and I were at Sixty Lakes and the tradition continued, though we probably had Spartacus II (or III or IV).  This year I and Christi are at Sixty Lakes and we have at least three mice in camp, all named Spartacus (probably the III or IV or V or VI).  These mice do quite well with cleaning up the food bits from breakfast and dinner - little pieces of oatmeal, a chunk of pumpkin, that sort of thing.  While we maintain a clean camp, there is only so much you can do with a rock floor.

With that being said:

• We wash dishes every night with hot water and soap
• We store all dishes upside down or covered by other upside down dishes, so no mice ever encounters the part of the dish that we eat out or off of.  
• Our dish sponges are kept away from mice.
• We expose our entire kitchen area to sunlight every day (hantavirus dies after a 1 hour exposure to the sun).

And finally:

• I have wanted a photo or video of Spartacus all summer long.
• I definitely washed this pot and knife really well after this video was taken
• This is the only time I allowed this event to happen  :) 

He's a bold little mouse, isn't he?