...this is not necessarily a good thing. Since the last post, Lucy has grown tremendously, the snow has melted and we've faced a multitude of ridiculous incidents.
We've drilled a new well, here's the drill rig in our front yard on Easter weekend. I know its sideways, but it takes a long time for me to fix the picture orientation because...
We do not have cable out here. After having dial up internet for about a month (one of the reasons I slacked off on the blog) we have switched to satellite internet. It is not fast, but it is faster than dial up. So now I am one of those people in the country with two satellite dishes on their house, paying a ridiculous amount of money for sub par internet. Ahhh...the country.
Anyway, we also had some septic issues...here is our beautiful view at sunrise with our recently covered septic tank in the middle of yard. To make a long story short the snow seemed to be melting in the middle of the yard, and things were being bypassed. The thing had to be excavated, cleaned out and have some piping replaced. Charlie did most of it himself. I managed to stay away from the lawn during this whole ordeal. If it weren't for Charlie that probably would have been the last straw for me. We are still here and there have been several last straws since then...
Like the bats.
We all knew that there once were some bats in the house. They left mountains of evidence in the crawl space. Well, they came back. For a few days you could here them squeeking and shuffling around over our heads. I actually lay awake in bed one night listening to them, terrified.
So we called the exterminator. Who informed us that we probably had hundreds. I was thinking probably 20 or so. So we stood outside that night and watched them fly out and counted. After about 15 minutes and 135 bats, I stopped counting and the exterminator was called the next day.
So you can't really see what's going on in this video, but I think the audio is enough to make you laugh at us. And you can see a few flying away from the house. This is after the exterminator put screens on the openings in the house. This allows them to crawl out of a very small opening in the screen, but then they cannot come back in. So we were watching them struggle to get out of the screen. Ridiculously creepy. The screaming is because one of them dove straight at my head. Enjoy the video, this will take like 20 minutes to upload, so I hope you watch it. Ok, it won't upload. Damn.
Anyway, this morning our house looked like a horror movie. Bats were literally swarming our house, looking for any way in, flying straight into the eaves and bouncing off, and coming dangerously close to my head.
Other than that things are great. Some more of the inside has been complete. Next post will have photos of nice things.
