Another New Tenant

Forgot to mention my other tenant, but with this one their is a story attached. On Thursday I was reading on my couch when I heard what sounded like an animal crying. I immediately thought it was Tara but she was laying beside me fast asleep. So I checked around and the sounds appeared to becoming from my chimney. I looked into the chimney and could not see anything but as soon as I shone a light up the chimney the sounds got louder. So I decided to wait for Jim to get home and figured together we could try and evict this new tenant. As I was waiting I saw a little black squirrel on my back deck with some white stuffing from a broken cushion on one of my chairs. I did not really think much of it at the time, just that I should get rid of the cushion.

After Jim arrived home we came up with a strategy to trap and humanely remove whatever it was that had taken up residence in my chimney. We soon discovered it was a black squirrel and Jim pointed out that the little guy had a pile of white fluff he was hiding in. I immediately remembered the squirrel I had spotted earlier and this got me to thinking. Was the little interloper climbing out of the chimney and running around collecting stuff to build a nest or was one of his compatriots dropping it down to him. So we tried to coax the little guy to come out so we could release him back into the wilds but without success. Next I noticed that the Flue was open so I carefully closed it so the little guy would have no chance of getting into the house and now I have to make sure he is out of the chimney and add a cap to the top. The adventures of owning a house