In a message dated 1/21/2009 2:00:22 AM Central Standard Time, Dan  writes:


After great concern was shown by homeowners, Trapper Dan's Wildlife
Service has created an inspection and exclusion service that prevents and
deters these pesky rodents from entering the structure............

Every fall its the same routine for "This old House " the squirels;the varmints; the wasps all start looking for passage back to thier ancestral home;

 our attic.
Its like the night shift comes on; I have just finished reading in bed and I am awaiting the Mrs. to finish what ever in God's name wimmin do in the commode for the  hour before bedtime   when the tell tale gnawing starts in one corner of the bedroom;
Its pretty consistent when it starts; sort of like a jack hammer  of teeth going at a 100 yr. old 2x6; just the right thing to put you to sleep.
But it forces me to exit the bed; after all i am paying the heat here so you think I would be entitled to a few nuts
Our cats  char char and clo clo  who sleep at the end of the bed frankly could gives a rats ass  about who was living in the wall; but they too have to move 
I proceed to the wall and inform the free loaders to pay up and pound away at em the way i used to do when I wanted the land lord to send the heat. up
I guess all the pounding has got the Mrs. stirred up 
"Coming dear ",,,,,, she echoes  from way off down the hall
I know that voice
and  I am in for it now; She probably thinks I took the viagra and I am trying to hurry her
The pounding has some success as it. quiets the gnawing of one corner  but has somehow  awakened the critters in the other  corner
This sounds a little bigger and deeper into the wall .
; if you put a champagne glass on end and listen  its not a gnawing sound its a nesting sound      and it sounds like the  May flower squirrel movers bringing in all kinds of stick furniture into the interior of my wall

I pound on it but to do so I have to stand on a chair. to which the Mrs. pops her head in with a white mask of face creme and curlers and announces she will be "in Just a minuet "
She sees me standing on the chair in my corona bottle boxers with my glasses fixed at the end of my nose and gives me the big eye as if this is going to be "our big night"  "Hey sexy are we  trying "something new here ?"she eyes me on my chair
I  don't know how fetching I look through the face creme and curlers
but I assure her my intentions are not romantic and while pounding on the wall seal my doom by informing her   that  our last years tenants are back for fall foliage and a warm bed.
Disappointed that Don Juan is nothing but a rat collector She disappears back to the holy sanctum  of the small room
The pounding rattles P nuts gold fish bowl on the other side of the wall and so in between the cats; the gold fish and  now the  Mrs.
Johnny  gets to spend the night getting bit by curlers  Py
Epilogue
What I did do was try moth balls; and it works  and this year we had the underside of the 100 yr. old (pyramid) Boulsilage house spray foamed and the in ground thermal heating put in
The guys who sprayed the attic to said it  said  it was a hotel up there  with hammocks, and a 3 foot wasp nest plus  large tier apartments for squirrels and stashes of nuts  
Thermal heat is pretty good ; but its hell to do on an old house  by py




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