Nah, my place has been doing this for almost 18 years we've been here with no detectable change. I have to assume it has been doing that for the full 31 years it has been up. (Oh, maybe you mean get out when the doors start sticking - how, leap out the window?)
Jon
When it gets cold..the varmints such as coons, bats, roof rats and so forth stay home..they dont want to go out and freeze off their tushies.
And what else is there to do in an attic at night in the dark?
They boink each other like lust maddened weasels.
You are just hearing the critter equivelent of the headboard slamming the wall.
Be at peace..alls well in the world.
However..in 16 weeks, you are going to be up to your ass in varmints.
Gunner
Political Correctness
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Tawk about politely succinct! I wasn't even reading between your lines, merely spewing mine. Your rejoinder is quite appropriate. Sorry 'bout that, Dave.
Hell, some guys get enthusiastic over a trailer!
Well ya. 45 years ago some houses on the Keewenaw Peninsula of MI had doors on the second floor for when snow drifted to above the tops of ground floor doors and windows. That may still be so.
still do. many of them were built with the basement halfway out of the ground, with a very high front porch. Just prior to winter..they would bring out the "snow walk" which was basically a bridge that was at least
4' tall, out to the street or driveway. When the average snow fall is 144" (12 feet)..after shoveling the sidewalk for a couple months..you simply cant toss the snow high enough to clear the banks on both sides of the walkway. The Snow Walk gave you a 4' head start.Very common when I was growing up, to go out and spray the tunnel out to the street with water and put mirrors up at the end of the tunnel, as you needed to be able to see if anyone was coming before pulling out into the street.
Ill have to see if Ive got some pictures of the street, nothing but tunnel mouths with a bit of roof showing over the 10-12' snow banks. I know there is one of me as an infant, with my parents, sitting on the cross bars of a telephone pole, which was at snow level.
Gunner
Political Correctness
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Average snowfall in the Keewenaw is 273 inches.
During a recent visit to the U.P. I noted that folks don't seem to speak "yooper" anymore -- but in conversation with a comely young lass in a coffeeshop in Marquette (while milady was visiting a quilt shop) I learned that yooper is not a forgotten dialect. When I spoke a little (very rusty) yooper to her she grinned and responded in kind -- and she slipped me a nice pastry confection to go with me good coffee. That was fun!
More fun than that might well have resulted in an untimely but deserved demise for the likes of me. Milady would surely miss me sorely, but her tolerance has bounds. I purely love that aspect of her character and nature because it cuts both ways. Having her on my six is a comfort in our dotage. What's not to love about a crepe-skinned gentle Nana with a .38 S&W in the thread box in her sewing room?
Said lovely young lass said her S.O. had applied for a job in Big Bay, was rejected because "he wasn't from around there." Wrong! He responded in yooper, got the job on the spot.
Author Robert Traver captured the essence of the U.P. in his various novels like "Anatomy Of A Murder", "Trout Madness", "Small Town D.A." and "Danny And The Boys". I don't recall which of these recounted the story of the fellow who was before the court about a matter regarding a creek or ditch, said he thought the flap was absurd over something "he could biss half vay acrost." "You are out of order", said the judge or JP or whatever. "Ya, and if ay vasn't out of order ay could biss all da vay acrost!"
Gunner
Political Correctness
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Ho poy! We get to the UP every now and then, gotta stop in Ishpeming next time to visit da yoopers! Dere's a quilt shop in Ishpeming too, hey!
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