The Laughing Wolf

The Battle Of The Lair

Posting may be light today, because I am still trying to catch up from a short pitched battle fought yesterday morning. While starting my efforts of the day, I was pulled from the computer by noise from elsewhere in the lair, most disturbing noise. To be honest, it sounded like a neighbor’s puppy had gotten in and was gamboling around up front in the yard sale items and was caught up in some packing tape. To which my logical mind pointed out that the tape was not up front and the door closed and locked. The din increased and I rose to go forth and find out just what in the heck was going on.

Upon reaching the door to the office, it was clear that the noise was not up front, but from the laundry area directly in front of me. And what a racket it was. Clearly not a mouse, but what the heck was going on? Grabbing the first non-overkill item to hand, my great great grandfather’s Civil War saber, I proceed to try and find out what has breeched the defenses.

What ever it is, it is not happy and wants out into the lair. I am not happy and am determined it shall not pass. Nothing is obvious and even with a flashlight I can’t see anything, so whatever it is, it is trapped in the dryer and/or the dryer ductwork. Suits me just fine, so I don’t need the sword or the blowgun I found during this time. Hmmmm. In the ductwork is it? I flip the heat setting to high and cut on the dryer.

Whatever it was, it was even more unhappy then, emitting an “EEEEEEEEEEE” sound like a rat. I think it moved on back into the vent and I hope went up. At any rate, the dryer got run for a while anyway to encourage it to move on out and Stay Out! When I went outside, up on the roof was a heck of a lot of lint and debris, indicating that something may have come out in a hurry. The head of maintenance is supposed to come by to help me check everything to be sure I don’t have a rat/tree rat (squirrel) corpse in the system. It may not quite have been the naked adventure that Tammi had yesterday, but it sure made my morning interesting and non-productive.

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