chimney update...

[sev]

...it was a starling. It didn't chirp at all yesterday, but five minutes before the critter-catcher came, it started trilling away. The guy pried the cap off the old wood-burning-stove pipe (which I'd tried to do yesterday, but I found it quite impervious), fished out the bird, and let it go. Expensive lesson, but if it happens again, I'll be able to get the damn thing out myself. I can do birds. (and mice.) Rats and squirrels are a different game.

As it turns out, the chimney cap installed by the contractors that remodeled our house a year and a half ago is bunk. They couldn't find one of the right size, so they bought the next size up, which overhangs the chimney by quite a bit, so animals can just climb up under it...thoroughly missing the point of a cap in the first place. Sheesh! Unless we can get them to come back and fix it, that will be *another* expensive endeavor. Damn.

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[diffcharm.livejournal.com]

Small Claims their asses... it's easy and fun!

[sev]

I'm far too timid^H^H^H^H^Hnice for that sort of thing. Well, maybe. I have delegated the confrontation to Ethan, and he will be making phone calls probably Monday.

so, we'll see.