Sunday, April 30, 2006 - We have raccoons in our attic!
So last night I'm awakened about 4am to the sound of what I thought was a child waking up and dragging something in my room. I groggily looked around the room and did not see or hear a child.
I heard more noises ... they were above me .... I then remembered what my friend's husband had told me last week.
He had just cut down a tree in their backyard. I chatted with him about how Daniel wanted to cut down a birch tree by our house because raccoons kept using it to climb on the roof. I also lamented how he wanted to also cut down the pretty purple dogwood tree in the front. Chris proceeded to tell me about some friends of his who had a family of raccoons living in their attic. They didn't realize it until the urine started leaking through their ceilings. GROSS!!! The raccoons had done extensive damage to their attic and it had to be totally redone.
So here I am last night (or rather early this morning) thinking back over that conversation. I'm imagining this family of raccoons in our attic. I'm imagining raccon urine and feces everywhere. I'm thinking (worrying) about the cost of repairing the damage. I'm sick with worry.
I also start imagining them getting in the house and waking up being stared down by one of them. Yikes!
So what do I do? Well of course ... I wake up my husband out of a deep sleep and make him listen for the noises. Duh...
So now we're both awake. I'm listing all the worst-case scenarios. I can't get back to sleep...arrgggg. I finally start praying. Of course that helped. God knows what's going on in the attic. He created these obnoxious little rascals. It could be worse. We're not seeing urine stains in the ceiling.
So Daniel does some research online this morning. We stayed home from church because we were so tired. We have a guy coming in the morning -- to the tune of about $95.
I'm gonna post some interesting things about raccoons in the attic... in case you were curious. 
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