the rodent invasion...

so this week has been a fun week since it is spring break, but it has also been frustrating at times due to these little creatures...
sure they might be cute playing tag in our yard, collecting nuts, or sitting on their hind legs looking at you, but i no longer think there are very many redeeming qualities about them. these little squirrels, or rats with bushy tails, have invaded our house and our car!!! yes, our car.

let me begin with the house. a while ago, i noticed a small hole near our front door on the and then one day while getting the mail i saw a squirrel crawl into that tiny hole. i knew that was not a good sign, but i chose to ignore it. (that is one of my "BEST" qualities- ignore a potentially disastrous situation.) well, fast forward a few months later and i started hearing some strange sounds from above while sitting in the house and then the city drove by and saw the TINY hole and gave us a warning. i was freaked out by the sounds and ANNOYED by the letter from the city. anyway, we finally decide to get the house and holes fixed. while repairing the siding a squirrel nest with 3 babies squirrels was revealed and fell out of the house on top off our repair man!!! gives me the creeps just to think about it again. the repair man assured me that all the openings the squirrels had created are closed and they can no longer get in- thank goodness!! he also was fairly certain there were no other creatures roaming in my attic!! so with the repairs to the house we were going to have paint the repaired places, but our house was in DESPERATE need of being painted, so we decided to just paint the whole thing. what an ordeal, but it is finished. this whole project came with a reasonable (thanks to our fifer renovation connections) but still LARGE price tag, BUMMER!!

just as this house project was finishing up, mark went to start my car and it wouldn't start. we thought maybe it was a dead battery so we tried jumping it with no luck. the next day he had it towed to the dealership where they discovered that "rodents had chewed the wires and the whole electrical system needs to be replaced." are you kidding me!?!?! yep, most likely the squirrels attacked us again and this time at mark's office parking lot. we left the car there over the weekend while we were at the lake so they had 2.5 days to destroy our car!!! the car is still in the shop and should be fixed in a few days.

in all seriousness, things could be a lot worse, but who knew that squirrels could cause so much chaos!!