Blogger V. Squirrels

Evidentlly I'm not the only Epilepsy blogger that took time to blog about their squirrel issues. Sicilianna, a My.Epilepsy.Com blogger, writes this:

I woke up at 4:30am to the sound of some sort of critter making noise in the ceiling. Last February we captured a family of flying squirrels that had nested in our attic. I fear some little cousins may have heard there was a vacancy and taken up residence. Once I realized the rolling of acorns and scurrying of tiny feet was not going to stop any time soon, I gave up on falling back to sleep and decided to get out of bed.

Check out her blog: Sicilianna's blog : Always move forward! My Life (So Far!) With Epilepsy.

Off Topic: Blogger V. Squirrels

I arrived home yesterday to the unmistakable sound of a Squirrel in the wall. Yes, a squirrel stuck in an interior wall of the house - scratching and clawing at the wall in a vain effort to climb the Sheetrock. Why unmistakable? Because the same thing happened last year - one of the neighborhood squirrels managed to make his way into the attic and then, due to an odd architectural feature of the house, managed to slip down one of the gaps into the wall.

So I proceeded to listen carefully against the wall, make a guess as to which section of the wall in which the squirrel was trapped, then cut a hole in the wall. Once the hole was opened, Ryan and I gave fair warning to Christa that she may want to exit the room for a moment while we extracted the vicious beast. After a few minutes of chasing the squirrel around the room, I managed to bag him and then let him out the front door.

I was pleased with the work until I went upstairs to cover the hole and heard a second squirrel scratching away in a different area of the wall. Ug. Same routine as before, except this extraction required two holes as my first guess was wrong. After the beast was released, I covered up the holes and called it a night.

This morning I awoke to the dreaded sound of scratching. One of the little beasts was trapped again... this time in yet another section of wall. I did not have time to get him out this AM, so he is still there. Hopefully I can get him out tonight...

Off Topic: Excuses To Miss Work

As if I didn't have enough to do... I started yet another blog. Excuses to Miss Work. My hope is that this might actually be useful to someone. ;) As opposed to my other blogs with topics such as: an obscure furniture maker from the Victorian era, my own ramblings about epilepsy, random philosophical quotes, family vacations to Oahu, family vacation to Finland, and contributing to a blog dedicated to solving the worlds problems "one beer at a time".

Completely Off Topic: Baby Bird

In short, I am a big fan of birds. I happened to come across two of these little birds that were living in my garage. Evidently their mother decided that the dilapidated bird house I had tucked away in my garage was sufficient for her nesting needs and decided to lay some eggs there. I managed to get a picture of this baby bird when it flew out and landed on the car.