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[which_chick]

It's kind of hot and sticky and drizzling today. If the weather were more amenable about raining, it'd be cooler. If the weather were more focused on going for "hot", the sticky would be less apparent. The way things are, it's as if it is drizzling just enough to thumb its nose at me and say, "Hey, look! Humidity of 100% and still not enough to cool anything off. Plus, overcast!"



The house is relatively snakeproof now. I am not sure how solid my repairs were, but they'll hold for now and probably until I get some more money together to do a new floor in the living-dining area of the house. The floor I have is made out of old, non-level, dryrotted bowling alley. It's not the best. On the front door, the floor sagged and weathered and dryrotted until there was an inch, inch and a half gap between the bottom of the door and the floor. The gap was how the snake got in my house the other day.

I'm not a fan of snakes. The gap suddenly became more worrisome once it started letting in snakes. Heat going out, not so much of a problem. Heat is made of wood and it doesn't have as pocketbook-obvious a bill as oil or gas or electric heat.

So, I took up the door weatherstrip. I took up the aluminum flashing that covered the otherwise-exposed bowling alley. I ripped out clumps and clumps of dryrotted bowling alley, using my hands. And then I filled in the approximately five inch gap between "steps" and "floor" with craptastic green bookshelf wood (seen in other projects like "dvd shelving unit" and "repairing the dresser"). It doesn't wobble. It can be stepped upon... though I don't much step there anyway and haven't since the original wood started to list alarmingly when I stepped on it. Most importantly, I can no longer see daylight under the door and there isn't a place for snakes to get into my house. Yay!

The woodpile is still hellish. The grass has not been cut. I suck.

Comments

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

What kind of snake?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Black rat snake. It's a couple of entries back, with pictures.

[brni.livejournal.com]

given a choice of cats or snakes, i'll take snakes.

snakes have never made a habit of leaving squirrel bits strewn across my deck.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

That is an adorable snake. You should have kept it!

[d-ubervillain.livejournal.com]

I had a gap like that, too, once, under my door. It turned my house into exit one on the cricket superhighway. Nothing worse than wondering what kind of horrible houseguest is going to show up. Though if I'd had a snake come in I'd have moved.