Michael went home mid-morning to meet with the insulation contractor who is going to give us an estimate about insulating the attic and sealing up the worst of the air leaks. He called to report that the fellow was very pleasant and thorough, even crawling through the eave space behind our bathtub upstairs to reach and check on the insulation on the other side of the house (which is otherwise inaccessible - happily he reported it was pretty good). Apparently our fellow is the skinniest employee they have!
The other report was that, when exploring the interior space where the pocket doors go into the wall (which is insanely drafty), they discovered a deceased, mummified squirrel. It seems to have been exploring the interior walls, fallen, and gotten wedged. Since we've never heard a noisy trapped squirrel there, or had a smell problem - and I am pretty sure anyone would have noticed - this must have occurred at some point when the house was vacant for some time. I doubt it was last year before we bought the house, since it was regularly-visited while for sale, and there was less than a month between our purchase and moving in. Maybe this is a *decades-old* deceased mummified squirrel!
In any case, my Facebook friends are suggesting we are now going to be haunted, and Michael has left the squirrel in situ so we can show the children, and I am wondering if we should display it on the roof to scare off the very much alive squirrels who have a habit of visiting our eaves, stealing my tomatoes, and otherwise being nuisances.
The problem with putting it up on the roof is that it could get struck by lightning. All of a sudden you'll have Frankensquirrel up there, and really, who needs that?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of squirrels, there is also this.