Squeak!

You know you've been away from your shop for a while when you turn on your vacuum to discover that a mother mouse has made a nest in the outlet port. She scampered off with only one of her four very young babies, but I collected the other three and left them tucked in some fluff in a place where she could find them, and when I checked back later they were gone. I hope she relocates her nest somewhere less dangerous... and not inside the walls of the house, like the rest of the mice around here. The cats already stare at the walls trying to figure out where the noises are coming from.