You know you live in the country when …
That phrase is going around our house lately . Two geezerhood since our migration from the city and the differences between urban and rural living are still quite double-dyed . While we ’ve become more accustomed to the norms of our country homestead — the glum starry nights , the sound of tractors echoing through the holler , the 24 - 60 minutes symphony of wildlife , the relentlessness of bite germ — we have n’t been here long enough for this lifestyle ’s surprises to become commonplace . The latest incident to supply to the litany of unexpected spirit changes is the source of our insomnia . We ’ve traded noisy neighbors playact loud music late into the nighttime for flying squirrels using our house as their midnight resort area .
We ’re parents of a nearly 1 - yr - old , so you ’d call back that run to teethe infliction and late - Nox nursing would be the reasons we ’re short on zzzz ’s . Yes , I ’m surprised to find out that at this point in my parental journey , it ’s not a scream infant but instead the unsettling sound of call off on the ceiling that leads me reaching for my morningcoffee .
To be quite honest , I was n’t aware until now that Kentucky was home to flight squirrels . When we first hear that grave outside the walls of our house , we believe it was theraccoonsthat keep watch for goodies on the porch or the birds nestle in the eaves of the roof . But as we continued to get a line this sound Nox after dark , we realise it was too loud to be a bird yet not enough clatter to be a racoon . As the sounds continually woke us up at midnight ( and 2 a.m. … and 4 a.m. ) from different corners of the house . Mr. B , of course , had to look into .
fortify with a heavy torch , he venture into the night to snoop on the critter making the laughable racket . After a few minutes gazing up at the in high spirits pitching of our roof , he saw our nemesis take a leap and glide down to the base a nearby tree . Now , he thought , that ’s either a rather elegantly swooping bat , or we ’ve got fly squirrels on our hand . release out it was the latter.Pratikppfaten.wikipedia
flight squirrels are nocturnal cousins to the gray squirrels that run around these persona . To their quotation , they care to feast on bugs I ’d rather not have crawling around my house and on hickory nuts that are oh so plentiful on our land . They are actually quite cute , and I find rosy that we have them in our woodwind instrument and have managed to catch a glimpse of their acrobatic feats . However , what makes me flinch is the destruction they could do to our house .
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Flying squirrel have been known to manducate their agency through gaps in a body structure ’s bulwark or roof , nest in attics , and even damage electric wiring . Well , our cabin - similar house has a grandiloquent pitch with 40 - foot - gamy cap and no attic . Physically getting to the place where they ’ve been wager is pretty hard for us . Plus , I fear that if these buggers make their way in , at best , we ’ll be staring at the nighttime sky from our bed , and at bad , have flying squirrel using our faces as landing pads .
So right now , our goal is to scare away the flight squirrels off . The method ? Mr. B throwing tennis lump at the bulwark to inculcate fear in them . ( It does n’t seem to be working . ) We ’re considering other tactics : Nerf guns?BB guns ? We do n’t want to suffer the squirrel — just let them know that our casa ai n’t their casa . A fellowship penis practice coffee ground to fight off gray-haired squirrel from his house , so perhaps that ’s worth a try , but I ’m unsure how to secure them to our outrageous roof . I ’ve also read that it ’s potential to capture fly squirrels in a live trap , though if we ’re go to release them into our Natalie Wood , who ’s to say they wo n’t make their way back ?
Like most of the challenges we face as entrant to the res publica , this office pull up stakes us feel rather incapacitated . It ’s difficult to jazz the right course of instruction of military action when you ca n’t draw on a life-time of experience to aid in your decision - making . It also seems like if we do n’t get a handle on the position jolly quickly , it could stand for some costly upshot in the future . No one said this liveliness would be easy , but in two years we ’ve take so much , and it looks like these flying squirrel have another deterrent example in computer storage .
