The joys of home ownership

I really love being a home owner. While there are tons of headaches involved, especially if you own an older home, there's nothing more gratifying than completing a project on your home and knowing it's yours.

Shortly after getting back from India, I made an interesting discovery in my home. I was woken up by this loud noise at 1:30am in the morning. It was coming from my attic crawl space and since that's in the room adjoining my bedroom, it sounded like someone banging pots right next to my head. Now mind you, I've had squirrels in my attic crawl space before. I have no idea how they are getting in there, but somehow they are. This early morning I decided to check it out. I must have been delirious in my half-asleep state. I opened the crawl space door and to my surprise saw the following (see picture)! It was definitely a shock in the wee hours of the morning.

Needless to say, that was the morning I realized that I had to close off any possible access to my roof that the squirrels (and raccoons) had. I hired a roofer to come out and close up holes in my roof line. According to the roofer I had about 7 of them!! I guess that's what happens with old homes. Although my roof (shingles) has been replaced, there are still some corners where the rafters come together that has some damage and squirrels and raccoons have managed to get into the roof line. Well, no more!! Hopefully this has been fixed for good!!

The joys of home ownership is that the work is never done - it's never complete. You're always working on some project; have goals to replace something or fix something else. In my case, I have a list a mile long.....I keep telling people my house is a 10 year project...it might be a never-ending project...