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Critter update

Critter control came to the house today and crawled around on the roof looking for holes. Unfortunately he did not have to work too hard to find them, yes, them as in plural. He stuffed most with a sort of steel wool and then built a cage to hang from the largest entryway. I have to check it every day and call if something is caught.

Oddly enough he felt it was flying squirrels and not the nonclimbing South American capybara in my walls. So if by flying squirrels he meant this:

Than yes I would agree. 

I fear he miscalculated the size of the cage he hung though, it seems only large enough to capture the nose of this breed of "flying squirrel" which surely will enrage it and we all know what happens when a "flying squirrel" gets angry, from watching that cute little movie Jurasic Park about cloned "flying squirrels"...

they break through the walls and hunt you down

and eat the back of the airplane to get you.

So I think it would be safer if I slept in the little cage tonight and 

let the veloc- err, flying squirrel have at the house. 

Things that go bump in the night

More like scratch and thump and bump.

Something is crawling around in the walls and scratching, scratching, scratching. It wakes me up in the middle of the night with my heart in my throat. I get up and pound on the walls and it scurries away. That's when I realize just how close this wall demon really is, standing completely still in the dark with my ear as close to the wall as I dare put it, I am separated from this mystery creature by only the thickness of the drywall. And the way it is scratching I fear it is moments from breaking through.

At 2 am in the dark it sounds like this:

It must be a capybara in my wall. 

Perhaps this photo better depicts the size of these 150 lb rodents:

Apparently it is desperately scratching at my walls trying to 

break through so it can either sit on my lap (see above) or eat me. Or both.

Critter Control is coming to investigate. I hope the drywall holds up until then.

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1904 - 2012

Sunset

Last night's sunset taken in front of the sheep farm.

Majestic Tree

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