What a morning!
Did my normal 5AM workout; came home to make my breakfast smoothie and before I could get the blender going, I heard what sounded like light chirping and clawing above our microwave. No way! How could that be??!!
Above the microwave is the ventilation pipe. It runs up into the ceiling, takes a 90 degree right turn and ends outside the north facing wall of our home. That vent had an outside opening just large enough for some critter to crawl through it. That had to be the source of my dilemma. So I stopped my morning routine, got a chair and up above the microwave I went – into the cabinet to disconnect the vent pipe. Long story short – there were some twigs, leaves and a SQUIRREL sitting there – scared and trapped. It couldn’t climb back up the tin piping – too slippery. So that little guy/girl was stuck and was making itself a new home ABOVE OUR MICROWAVE! Are you kidding me??!!
What this little guy had realized is that it’s getting cooler, it had to find a warmer place and what better location than above a microwave vent that produces warm toasty heated air. Maybe a smart move for the squirrel but not in our home. After a while, it would not exist on no food and the consequences of it being buried in that spot in the kitchen is more than I need to discuss here. Use your imagination. I turned on my animal removal skills, put on the gloves and within 10 minutes that young squirrel had been released into the wild about a 1/2 block from our house!!
I turned on my hardware repair skills – reconnected the tin pipe, duct taped it back together, thoroughly cleaned the area and everything was like new. Finally got my 
breakfast shake, headed off – 1 hour late – to get ready for work and that was it!
Not so quick! When entering the kitchen to depart for work, guess who was perched on the kitchen window ledge? You got it! There sat that evicted squirrel just looking around conjuring up some plan to get back into that freshly sealed opening (thank goodness I didn’t wait until the weekend to do that). It seemed – ready to setup a new residency in the SAME SPOT. I was not happy! I ran out into the garage and grabbed a broom (that was the closest thing I could reach), turned the curve from the garage and of course, the squirrel scampered away in fright! As I stood there trying to decide my next move, I wondered why I let my “PETA guilt” prohibit me from putting down that rascal when I had it captured in the first place! I looked up on the house wall and the squirrel was busy running all around that vent opening I assume hoping that the vent would somehow open and it could crawl back in there.
Not sure what my next move will be. When I get home tonight and the squirrel is within eyesight, if you are driving by our home, I’ll be the one out there with a broom, hoe, shovel or anything else I can find as I chase it around the house!
I fought the squirrel and neither of us won – YET!
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