Pesky Critters!

Yes, we have pesky little critters.  Two of them.  And they are squirrels, but that's not what I call them.  They are very content and think they have a nice home.  They seem to prefer the upstairs attic over the lower one.  But I have a surprise in store for them.

After we got back home in early April, Craig was visiting with the neighbor at the back and he mentioned that he saw a squirrel coming out of the upper corner of our house.  We didn't really take him too seriously, but checked the vent screens around the whole house and couldn't see any holes.

So life went on and then some of our guests in the front bedroom starting saying they thought they sometimes heard scratching noises in the night and it sounded like it was coming from the area where the eaves meets the roof line.

Then we were sitting in the living room visiting and the two of them were running around on the front walkway and trying to shimmy up the garage man door. When we went outside to investigate, one of them was sitting in the rain gutter over the front door trying to enter through a hole in the screen and into the soffitt.

So we got some tin and blocked it up.  Then we started seeing them playing all over the roof. We shooed them away and starting investigating for access points where they could be getting in. HA! We found about four holes in the screens.

They weren't shy either.  They would come and play on the deck and around the pool and back door, as well as the front walkway and drive. Craig would get the camera and they would just stand there while he took their picture.  If they were on the roof they would run from the front to the back playing catch me if you can with us.

Here are some pictures of our pesky little critters.

After that Craig went outside the patio doors just in time to see it walking straight up the wall and into the hole it made in the screen and then sit in the soffitt looking down at us. We have seen it do this many times since.  I used to think they were cute, but not so much anymore.

So we are getting new gutters, fascia and aluminum soffitts all around and then the attics will be completely sealed.  In the meantime, Craig went online and found a site for homemade squirrel traps. So we did that, but nothing is going in so far. Oh, life is so much fun.  Spend, spend and spend some more!!  Hold on, I 'll be right back. I have to go give my money tree some water.