Attic Rodent Parties & Freaky Blue Moon Lights = Sleep Depravation

Bad squirrel. VERY bad demon possessed squirrel.

If you entered our home last night between oh, 10:00pm and 4:00am, you would think we had a heard of cattle residing in our attic. A very angry heard of cattle. In reality, it's probably only one freaked out squirrel, but the cattle heard is a much better reference for what it sounded like while trying to catch some zzzzzzz's at Casa Vogel. "Trying" to catch some zzzzz's is the key word. No zzzzzz's were had last night. You see, I heard a slight scratching in dude's wall 2 days ago. So Tim braved the attic, didn't find anything and put plywood over an obvious entry point in the chimney. Mistake. They WERE in there and tempers flared when they realized they were trapped.

On top of that, we had to deal with a disoriented dude who didn't adjust well to the new, genius night light that we purchased. This innovative night light was intended to enable him to sleep in longer in the morning. It's about 6 inches in diameter and displays a bring, smiling blue moon at night that turns into a bright, smiling, yellow sun at a specified time in the morning. The sun signals that he's allowed to get out of bed. What we didn't realize is that the freaky blue smiley face moon would freak him out and he would sit up, waiting for it to turn into a sun. And so yes, he did sleep in this morning. Because he was awake for the majority of the night. And Mama "slept" on his hard floor, offering much needed comfort. Mission accomplished. Genius.

The Evil "Blue Sun"

Dude's source of morning happiness. This glorious sun's arrival means the evil blue moon is all gone.

Between the freaky blue moon taunting me as I laid to rest right beside it on the dude's floor and the demonic trapped rodent/s in the attic, it was quite a night. Tim is lining up pest control to come today to take care of problem #1. In fact, he's on his way home right now to undo the plywood and was warned that the rodents might very well be waiting at that entry point to attack. And so he's a bit freaked out. Don't worry, it's only costing us $350 for a rodent man to come set traps and come back every day for 2 weeks to make sure they're all dead and gone.

Problem #2 will be laid to rest in it's box and shipped back to the warehouse it came from tomorrow. Dude will be happy to see the moon go, but he has grown quite fond of the sun. In fact, this morning he sat next to it for 15 minutes gazing at it, singing to it, cuddling it and talking about how much he missed it.

Wish us luck on tackling #1 &#2. Lots and lots of luck.