Kmit58

This is gonna ramble but it has some good info ......I had a problem with flying squirrels. It was my own fault in that I ignored them for too long and they established themselves in the attic and a couple of those useless storage closets under the steep roof. No exterminator would guarantee getting them out and keeping them out so I took it as a personal challenge.
The first thing I did was throw out everything stored in the under the eaves closets. They were nesting in that trash and leaving waste everywhere. I bought some trail cams and attached them to 5 gallon buckets. I set the buckets at various places inside and outside to see how bad my problem was and to determine where they entered and exited the house. Placing the cameras on buckets allowed me to reposition them in seconds and was really helpful to help me determine the best places to set traps. I learned they spent huge amounts of time in the crawl space under the house. I set glue traps (hated them but hated the squirrels more) and live traps in the attic and the crawl space and checked them first thing every morning. The glue traps caught a lot of them and were really easy to use. I learned the best way to catch them with the live traps was to put a bird seed block into the trap and then leave it open. The squirrels always started picking at it from outside the trap but after a few days would enter and get their fill. Once I saw that on the camera I closed the one way door and the next morning had two or three every time. I closed every hole I found they were using and every potential opening I could find with a heavy gauge 1/4" wire mesh. In my case the two big areas were attic vents and the line running from the HVAC unit and through the foundation block. To a lesser extent they entered by way of the soffit at one corner of the house. I ended up putting a wire barrier on all of the corners. I live close to woods but the cameras showed me they routinely glided from the hickory trees in my yard to the chimney and then had an entrance behind the chimney. I had all five of the hickory trees removed. It took me about two months of constant surveillance and knocking out holes one at a time but eventually I got them all. I don't know the number I had but it was easily into double digits. Let me add that the use of cameras and putting them on the buckets was the key.
Good luck. It isn't easy. They're like mice with wings.

Whoever they are, she's influencing them in a way that the law doesn't matter.

Unless the Senate goes back to requiring a two thirds majority to install federal judges we'll always have this partisan system we're into now. The two thirds majority forces bipartisanship and compromise. Simple majority does not.

Don't do anything. Most of us have gotten through it just fine and in my personal experience, my parents made it worse by always wanting to talk about it. That was 50 years ago and I know that it was the same 50 years earlier and 50 years earlier than that. Hearts get broken. Hearts heal. Leave her alone unless she wants something.

Here in SE Ohio I complain that ours is 1.1% of market value. Glad I don't live in Texas.

I was let go twice in the early 80's. It was tough everywhere. I had the opportunity to return to the first company about three years later and retired from it after 37 years. There were ups and downs, violent contact disputes, layoffs, restructuring, and ownership changes. It was seldom smooth sailing but who says life is easy.

I had one back in the 90's and absolutely loved it. We were getting pounded with snow and I was getting tired of putting chains on my old pickup every other day just to get up and down a few hills on the way to work. Drove by a car dealer and setting on top of this giant snow pile was a Samauri. Pulled in and took it home. It would literally go anywhere. I never felt like it was going to roll over as long as I stayed within the speed limits, but heck, it would hardly exceed the speed limit. The one thing that was a little scary was wind gusts. They would come out of nowhere and shove you across the lane. A little unnerving at first but I like a bit of excitement. I'll never forgot driving to a football game with my buddy when a gust hit us and he screamed like a little girl. LOL! I make fun of him to this day.
The only criticism I have is the soft cover on the spare. Had a flat one time and found out someone had inserted a knife blade through the cover and the tire. Two things I've learned are people are pigs and a$$e$.

Once my kids grew past certain Christmas beliefs, I sought out working those holiday weeks. Everyone was off and I didn't have to put up with all the normal bs.

The quote “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times” is attributed to G. Michael Hopf.

You get that same ride here in SE Ohio.