Staying Busy

I have had the unmentionable, but all too common, Wisconsin problem of bats in my home's attic and walls. I have paid a pest control company to fix the problem and that lasted all of one year. I now use a air horn whenever I go into the basement and intentionally leave the basement lights on to deter their finding the place cozy. When we had the exterior of the home painted two years ago, I asked the painter to fill any holes or gaps that he might find. Still, I can hear them crawling in the walls. And, yes, it is disconcerting and creepy for me.

While using one of the few dry, relatively warm days so far this year, I got out the ladder and went up to make sure the gutters were clean. Up on the ladder, I noticed two gaps at corners of the roof that had obviously been missed by the painters and the pest control people. Pish! I went to the hardware store(yes, open on Easter) and bought steel wool and expanding foam insulation. Back up the ladder and I piped a ton on the sealer into both gaps. The stuff is very sticky, so I drew out some of the steel wool and at the exposed opening I stuffed it into the foam. Nothing was going to getting in or out of those gaps anymore nor was anything going to chew through steel wool.

And for good measure, I went around the house looking for any other gaps. They got zapped too.

I informed the Espousa, if there was ever a night that bats were going to be flying inside the house last night was the night. This morning we awoke to ... nothing. Hopefully, the bats were out flying around when I was working, so maybe I got lucky. Time will tell.