Meanwhile, we have been waging war on a squirrel, which found a tiny hole in our roof (where the roofline meets another part of the roof and a joist ends there). Hearing the pitter patter of a herd of elephants in your ceiling isn't the most joyous of things, so we had to evict him. I managed to encourage him to leave after a barrage of loud rock music and thumping the ceiling with a rolled-up car sunshade... I got the ladders out, jammed some junk into the hole and watched with delight when the squirrel came back and was most bemused. Chased him away again. Alan came home early that night; I'd gone out to get some wire mesh and a staple gun. These items have been duly employed to cover the hole, much to the squirrel's disgust. He hasn't come back in yet (touch wood!).
Mind you he has been prowling around the house this morning. Look what I snagged on my webcam, right at the window!:
And here he is perched on the end of the roof, near the hole:
Finally, I hope you all saw the fabulous conjunction of the Moon with Venus and Jupiter the other night.
Here's a couple of views:
Venus is the brighter planet on the left.
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Great photos! We have a Road Runner that hangs around here too. At one point we had dozens of lizards living in the sand in which the rocks of the stone patio were set. One day I saw the RR loitering around on the patio and that was the end of our lizards. He ate every last one of them.
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