Far Guy heard some noises one night...he said it sound like an animal scratching in the laundry room. We both looked around and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
One day I heard a sound like a marble was in the dryer...I found a dime! Yeah me.
Night before last I got up in the middle of the night and read my book ...I heard a scratching and a noise of something dropping... in the area of the dryer.
I told Far Guy the next day...he investigated.
This is the dryer vent with the cover removed...seems someone was squirreling away acorns for the Winter. Apparently when the guys refinished the house they did not put the dryer vent cover on correctly and some critter could shove acorns in through a small gap in the bottom.
Far Guy came inside and took the entire dryer vent apart...guess what? Many more acorns...we vacuumed them up, reattached the venting and outside Far Guy covered the dryer vent cover with some heavy screen...because apparently this is a creature of habit and must be stopped from using the dryer vent as a storage area.
It is either a mouse, a chipmunk or a squirrel. My guess is a chipmunk.
It took us half the day to get it all cleaned up. Far Guy says the sound I heard was acorns dropping down the dryer vent when the area up top of the vent got too full... then the acorns ran down the dryer vent inside.
Mystery solved. Country living at its finest.
Far Side
