Weekend wrapup

[da]

Dan's sleeping now. He's spent the day in bed; more asleep than not. To me, it looks much like a bad flu, at least at this point. He came downstairs for some chicken soup, then he went right back up to bed. He has some fever, not dangerously high, thankfully.

I don't know how he'll be tomorrow morning, but I expect at least I'll come home for lunch. I so don't envy him right now; it's apparently quite itchy.

The other crop of non-sick-boyfriend stuff:

I investigated under the porch, and sure enough, there's a critter highway under there. Well, footprints, probably just one critter. I think the proper solution involves a roll of chicken-wire, but I want to be certain the critter's not in there at the time (it's impossible to see around the corner, because the space is only about 6 inches at the back). I'm probably going to shine a nice bright light under there for a night or two, to convince the skunk or whatever that it's not a good place to hang out; then, climb down there around Wednesday afternoon with some chicken-wire and a staple-gun.

The dripping from the ceiling is only in one location. For now. The roof will have to wait until spring. I'm pretty sure the problem's that we never cleaned the eavestroughs and downspouts, and it became solid ice pretty early in the season. Grr. I hope the ice doesn't damage our new roof.

I made a big pot of vegetarian chili, which I'm looking forward to eating in the next few days. Hope d's well enough to enjoy it too.

What a weekend!

Comments

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

If it's one a' them there nocturnal animals, you're better walling the place up in the middle of the night. Either that, or as late as you can possibly stay awake.

Have you got some bricks to go across the bottom, too? The ground is probably too frozen for them to dig through, but for skunks at least, any barrier needs to go down into the dirt for quite some distance to prevent them from just digging under it. In this weather, putting some heavy bricks across the bottom of the chicken wire (with the chicken wire lying on the ground) might help.

We have spare bricks if you need some.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Well, my idea was that a nocturnal animal wouldn't go back into the space if there was a bright light being shined on it when it tried to go home (whenever in the morning).

Yes, good idea about the bricks to hold down the chickenwire; I'll be sure to arrange it so that's possible. (not far to go for the bricks; a former house-owner seems to have used the area under the porch for spare-brick storage).