Showing posts with label gecko. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gecko. Show all posts
05 February 2008
11 January 2008
gecko "the fearless" vs. the thing that lives in the walls
The cat and I look at each other from across the room, and then we both turn to stare at the dining room wall...from which we hear...scrabbling noises.
His tail gets puffy, as it does when he gets upset, and after a few seconds of listening, he takes off to under-the-bed land. Thanks, buddy.
I walk quietly towards the dining room. Finally, I am facing the front corner behind the chest of drawers and wine rack. Furious scrabbling noises are coming from what seems to be inside the wall. I peek cautiously under the chest. Whew, nothing in the room with me. I look back at the wall, where something is either trying to get in or out, or possibly build something. Sounds like twigs scraping wood or metal. The gutters? Could it be in the gutters?
Outside, I hear nothing. After a while, I figure the neighbors will think I'm weird if I continue to stand in the yard and stare at my house.
We've heard this once before. Not sure if it's living in the roof, the gutters, or--gulp--the wall. Either way, I'm not looking foward to evicting it, whatever it is.
His tail gets puffy, as it does when he gets upset, and after a few seconds of listening, he takes off to under-the-bed land. Thanks, buddy.
I walk quietly towards the dining room. Finally, I am facing the front corner behind the chest of drawers and wine rack. Furious scrabbling noises are coming from what seems to be inside the wall. I peek cautiously under the chest. Whew, nothing in the room with me. I look back at the wall, where something is either trying to get in or out, or possibly build something. Sounds like twigs scraping wood or metal. The gutters? Could it be in the gutters?
Outside, I hear nothing. After a while, I figure the neighbors will think I'm weird if I continue to stand in the yard and stare at my house.
We've heard this once before. Not sure if it's living in the roof, the gutters, or--gulp--the wall. Either way, I'm not looking foward to evicting it, whatever it is.
03 October 2007
settling in
Other than the break-in, there's not much to report. We've been working in the yard, trying to keep the very back of the yard from returning to the jungle that we hear it once was. Brandon cleared a lot of vines, and cut down some more small trees (privet is EVIL), and on Sunday we hauled a lot of them to the street (finally).
Our pending projects include putting attic/roof vents back in, and then adding more insulation to the attic (we have less than an inch of blown insulation up there right now!). On Friday, the alarm guy comes to add more glass break detectors.
Fall is off to a gorgeous beginning, however, and we've been trying to get screens in all the windows so we can leave them when we're at home. Hoping to get some screen doors soon as well. Gecko's been enjoying the open windows, although we had to nail in some of the screens so Fat Boy won't push them out when he stretches out on the window sills.
In other Gecko news, he seems to have acquired fleas from somewhere--we're guessing from his vet visit last month. He's been becoming friends with JB (Jet Black), the cat from next door, but they only see each other through the window glass. They've only had cat to cat contact through the screen once, and I don't think that was enough to transfer fleas. When I say friends, I mean, they spend a lot of time yowling and puffing up their fur at each other. Kinda like when you put a mirror up to a beta fish. Well, most of the puffing was on Gecko's part; JB seems more laid-back.
Exciting times, these :)
Our pending projects include putting attic/roof vents back in, and then adding more insulation to the attic (we have less than an inch of blown insulation up there right now!). On Friday, the alarm guy comes to add more glass break detectors.
Fall is off to a gorgeous beginning, however, and we've been trying to get screens in all the windows so we can leave them when we're at home. Hoping to get some screen doors soon as well. Gecko's been enjoying the open windows, although we had to nail in some of the screens so Fat Boy won't push them out when he stretches out on the window sills.
In other Gecko news, he seems to have acquired fleas from somewhere--we're guessing from his vet visit last month. He's been becoming friends with JB (Jet Black), the cat from next door, but they only see each other through the window glass. They've only had cat to cat contact through the screen once, and I don't think that was enough to transfer fleas. When I say friends, I mean, they spend a lot of time yowling and puffing up their fur at each other. Kinda like when you put a mirror up to a beta fish. Well, most of the puffing was on Gecko's part; JB seems more laid-back.
Exciting times, these :)
30 May 2007
more new photos
I went back and added photos to some of the previous entries, but here are the rest of them:
Ooh!
The back room / den. Still looks pretty much like this today. Actually, it's on today's calendar for "To Do."
New refrigerator!
Ooh!
Ahh!
His Fatness.
Our quick fix to prevent His Fatness from getting stuck in the chimney. Gecko hardly ever exhibits interest in anything other than his food bowl, but he was very, very interested in the chimney flue. Not sure if he'd actually try to climb up, but it's a given that he'd get stuck ;)
The back room / den. Still looks pretty much like this today. Actually, it's on today's calendar for "To Do."
Front room / living room. Actually looks much better than this right now.
Back room/den again. 
Kitchen, partially cleaned and decluttered.
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