If I didn't already loath squirrels enough (because they've destroyed every birdfeeder I've ever had)...THIS is a weekend we could have done without!! Saturday morning we woke up to the same noise I was hearing all week...squirrels scurrying around inside my brand new kitchen ceiling!! GRR!! So hubby makes his way up into the crawl space to find that she had ripped up two beams of insulation to make her nest. While up there he tells me something like a rat or squirrel is looking at him so we KNEW we had to get them out of there!! First we had to find out where she was getting in but that wasn't hard after one of our boys informed us that he saw them going into the corner of the house. Once again hubby climbs into the ceiling and I'm outside with a pellet gun incase the mom comes back and goes bezerk!! (brave soul that I am ....NOT!!) So...momma's out of the ceiling and two babies have followed her. While I'm out guarding the opening, so momma can't get back in, hubby is up tearing the nest apart to find any remaining babies.(he was alittle freaked out by the whole thing) In the mean time one of the babies started squealing and the momma comes flyin' back like Tarzan through the trees so I ran in to warn hubby!! Once we are certain the babies are all out, the hole is sealed and we were off to my sisters for my neices birthday party! (It was a very nice evening as I was able to visit with my dad who I don't see very often.)  We got home around 11:30 pm and went right to bed.....

Sunday morning hubby is up studying his Sunday School lesson and hears something on the roof....looks out the door and sees momma squirrel back and trying desperately to get back into her nest. He tells me to get a robe on and come out...only to find out that we had closed up the hole leaving a baby trapped!! Well we couldn't do anything then cause we were heading to church. When we got home momma squirrel was no where to be found so we opened the hole and attempted to get the last baby out. It took alittle coaxing but finally she was out.......it's been quiet ever since!! Other than the insulation mess and some chewing damage to our roof, I think we've gotten the situation taken care of and nobody was hurt.  It was really neat to see how animals respond to their babies and I read alot of stuff on the internet about squirrels...got alittle bit of an education!! Wanna know anything about squirrels??