Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Meet the New Squirrel Man

For the last several years we've enjoyed regular visits from a nice man that we call "the squirrel man." We have called the squirrel man each fall when temperatures have cooled off at night. This seems to be a sign for all of the local flying squirrels to leave their forest homes and hole up in our attic for the winter. Their nocturnal antics are much louder than you would think possible for such small animals, and their acorn play sounds much like a bowling alley above our heads.

We have enjoyed our association with the squirrel man, and appreciated the work he has done towards ridding our attic of these pesky creatures each year. Unfortunately his fine work comes with a steep price; $150 for the first visit, and $50 for each squirrel caught. Last year he was merciful and only charged us half price when his traps caught 6 or 8 squirrels in two weeks. Still, it was too much money and I told him we could no longer afford his services. Thankfully we didn't hear any more squirrels the rest of the winter.

In the last month or so we have begun to hear sounds in the attic again. I looked online until I found the kind of rat traps that the squirrel man had used and ordered them last week. They arrived just the other day and we are ready to begin this year's battle against the squirrels.

Meet the new squirrel man. Doesn't he look excited?


P.S. A nice woman named Sarah, who operates her own pest control company, comes and sprays our house once a quarter. We call her....

the bug lady.

And yes, it's embarrassing when the kids open the door, and then yell into the house, "Mom, the bug lady is here!"

6 comments:

  1. I've explained to Mahon before the naming system at our house.

    "The squirrel man."
    "The bug lady."
    "The mailman who smokes."

    etc., etc., etc.

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  2. I will have to get Sarah's number from you- I really want to start having someone come out regularly so I can have a little piece of mind!

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  3. Okay, this post is just begging for a S'Quarrels plug. =D I bet Bryan would love to get that man's contact info. Don't you think a 'squirrel man' just NEEDS to own a card game about squirrels?!

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  4. That is too funny. I'm just really really glad to not be the squirrel woman. However, I'd probably be called the cricket lady around my house...

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  5. I looked excited after you said to me, "Stop looking so sad--pretend you're excited!"

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  6. We might need the squirrel man to come visit our house! I've been noticing a suspicious 'frolicking' sound up in our attic above the playroom. It's seriously freaking the kids out! :) They're convinced there's a witch, ghost or a monster up there. Why did this have to happen around Halloween?!?

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