They fly?

Here is a photo of the type of "squirrel" we've been dealing with in our attic. This one appeared in our living room tonight without any invitation, probably due to the cold weather we're having again. It (and the others I've removed over the last few months) are apparently southern flying squirrels.

Our cat Jose chased him into the kitchen and we thought he would take care of everything. Except all he wanted to do was play with the stupid thing. I was called to the scene to dispatch the squirrel and save the women folk and in short order peace was restored to the homestead.

Roof vent goopy-goop

With the eight inches of rain we received in two days back at Christmas time, we became aware that the ~23 year old house had a leaking roof vent.

So we took a clear afternoon and got out the ladder, some roof vent goopy-goop, latex gloves and proceeded to smear each vent with a layer of sealer.

We're hoping the sealer does the job and when we wind up replacing the roof (original to the house) we'll replace all the vents outright.

Delivery Day!

Yay... our old/recycled dryer has been burning out thermal fuses lately, and at $40 a pop that gets expensive quick. So we went ahead and bought a new one... "LG Electronics 7.0 Cu. Ft. Super Capacity Electric Dryer". It seemed to review good on several websites and we made sure that it could handle the run of new dryer vent pipe Mandy and I recently installed. The dryer vent that came with the house was clogged and the previous owners had the dryer just venting into the garage... which was making our outdoor gear yucky!

Does it ever end?

We decided to spend the weekend doing all the wonderful tasks that come with owning a house figuring we can burn a weekend doing that stuff and not piecemeal it over the rest of the summer.